On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 11:22:33AM -0600, Satish Balay wrote: > On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Dave Jones wrote: > > > Two new ones this time. 2.6.9-1.9_FC2 and 2.6.9-1.715_FC3 > > As usual, they're 99% the same (dependancy/specfile diffs only). > > Regarding kernel-hugemem - your eariler post says: > > "If you have a lot of memory (16GB or more), or have a workload that > benefits from being able to have more address space, you can use the > -hugemem kernel to run with 4g/4g again." > > Does this mean - it won't work on machines less than 16GB? It should work just fine. Remember, this was the default configuration until recently, so if earlier kernels worked, this should too. > I tired it on my thinkpad - with 1GB (assuming it should be simlar to > the current kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 with 4g/4g) - but it wouldn't boot. > It was stuck at: That's very odd, and not something I have an explanation for. Did you have 'quiet' on the boot command line ? Removing it may print something more useful. Dave