RHEL, CentOS, not supporting 7gig RAM

Serge Dubrouski sergeyfd at gmail.com
Fri Mar 6 22:28:13 UTC 2009


If you don't use x64 bit version of RedHat or CentOS then you have to
enable PAM in your kernel, Otherwise it won't see more than 4 Gb.

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Tosh <toshlinux at gmail.com> wrote:
> saqib butt wrote:
>>
>> Motherboard i have is from intel and its DG965RY. The four memory sticks
>> are
>> of 667 bus speed and three of them are in 2GB of capacity and one is of
>> 1GB
>> in capacity.
>
> some remarks :
> 1) I recommend you installing 8GB by changing it to 2GB all should be the
> same or at least in pairs
> 2) have you done the necessary bios updates, intel normally provides iso
> update cd's
> 3) press F2 to go into the bios, does it recognize 7GB
> 4) check grub, there are some issues regarding grub limiting the kernel to
> only see 3.3GB
>
>
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