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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: drn on 28 October 2003, 08:26

Title: 1024 mb ram dont work
Post by: drn on 28 October 2003, 08:26

recently i bought 2 512mb ram chips and placed them both into my computer (asus p4b533, 2g, mandrake 9.1 and windows xp) it worked fine with xp but when i went into mandrake it would'nt boot upto kde, it just gos to a command prompt screen (i dont know what its called in linux, cmd prpt). But when i removed one of the chips it worked fine.
Any suggestions on what the problem is?

Title: 1024 mb ram dont work
Post by: flap on 28 October 2003, 14:29

You may need to recompile the kernel to support that much ram.

Title: 1024 mb ram dont work
Post by: badkarma on 28 October 2003, 21:04

Never had this problem, never tried Mandrake though (at least, not on this pc) but 1024Mb RAM was never a problem with SuSE (7.x/8.x).

Title: 1024 mb ram dont work
Post by: flap on 28 October 2003, 22:10

I think by default the mandrake kernel doesn't support it.

Title: 1024 mb ram dont work
Post by: slave on 28 October 2003, 23:01

Mandrake is a turd OS (IMHO)

Title: 1024 mb ram dont work
Post by: emh on 29 October 2003, 03:03

It will work, you shouldn't have to recompile a kernel.

Just simply install the enterprise kernel.  (It should be on the install CD's)

It's called "kernel-enterprise".

Then you should be able to use all 1 GB of your RAM.

Title: 1024 mb ram dont work
Post by: drn on 29 October 2003, 08:01

Thank you Captain Obvious.