Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

From: Robert Vangel (vangelr_at_rfgt.net)
Date: 12/30/04

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    Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 19:25:40 +0800
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org

    saravanan ganapathy wrote:
    > --- Alexei Chetroi <debian@lexa.uniflux-line.net>
    > wrote:
    >
    >> I'd suggest you to do the following:
    >>
    >>1. unpack /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18.tar.bz2
    >>2. copy /boot/config-2.4.18-1-686 to .config in the
    >>top dir of kernel source
    >>(kernel-image-2.4.18-1-686 should be installed)
    >>3. enable highmem. make menuconfig
    >>4. build kernel with make-kpkg: "make-kpkg --initrd
    >>--revision='revision01'
    >>kernel_image"
    >>5. install new deb
    >>6. reboot
    >>7. tell us about your luck :)
    >>
    >> Good luck!
    >>
    >>--
    >>Alexei Chetroi
    >
    >
    > I did the same way as u told , my steps are as follows
    >
    > 1)apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.18
    > 2)cp /boot/config-2.4.18-bf2.4
    > /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/.config
    > 3)make menuconfig
    > Select 'Load config from file' and choose .config
    > Enable 'smp', 'highmem4G'
    > 4)make dep
    > 5)make-kpkg clean
    > 6)make-kpkg --revision=debian.2.4 kernel-image
    > 7)dpkg -i kernel-image-2.4.18_debian.2.4_i386.deb
    > 8) Reboot
    >
    > Got kernel panic. Any mistakes I did?
    >
    > Sarav
    >

    You forgot the "--initrd" option to make-kpkg, and you will also have to
    add the appropriate "initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18_debian.2.4.img" line to
    /etc/lilo.conf (or however you do it in grub if you use it) 

    


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