On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Dave Jones wrote: > 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. Its stuck at the same place after removing 'rhgb quiet' options. Satish