--- Federico Gherardini <f.gherardini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Fawad Lateef wrote: > > >I m using Fedora Core 2 (2.6.8.1) on XEON 2.2GHz > SMP > >Machine with 8GB RAM. When I boot my system with > the > >kernel 2.6.5 or on 2.6.8.1 without SMP and > HIGHMEM64G > >support it boots fine, but when I boot with SMP and > >HIGHMEM64 enabled on 2.6.8.1 or 2.6.5, the booting > >process becomes tooo slow i.e. took almost 20 or > >minutes to boot. > > > >The Same kernel configuration on the other machine > >having same hardware configuration (except have 2GB > >RAM in other machine not 8GB) works well. > > > >The machine creating problem is working fine with > >kernel 2.4.25 or so ............ > > > >Please do help me .......... > > > > > I had exactly the same problem! Have you specified > the mem=<your mem > here> on the kernel line in the bootloader? That > completely solved the > problem for me. > > Hope this helps, Thanks, That worked for me ............ but can any one tell me that what kernel do internally when mem=<mem_size> will be given to that ........... (from kernel code point of view will be better) .......... Thanks and Regards, Fawad __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
