Per Jessen skrev:

Bas hendriks wrote:

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I am building a vmware server with SuSe10.2/64 as host os. The problem is that only 2 Gb ram is available in SuSe, while 4 Gb is installed.

I think you need to use a kernel with support for 4Gb memory. Either rebuild yourself, or find a suitable opensuse kernel. (maybe a -bigsmp version).

/Per Jessen, Zürich

Works perfectly fine for my 4 and 8 GB memory machines. Just plug in the DVD and install, it chooses the right kernel automatically. In my case on the 4GB box, uname -r 2.6.16.27-0.9-smp -- Anders Norrbring Norrbring Consulting -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Anders Norrbring schreef:

Per Jessen skrev:

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Bas hendriks wrote:

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I am building a vmware server with SuSe10.2/64 as host os. The problem is that only 2 Gb ram is available in SuSe, while 4 Gb is installed.

I think you need to use a kernel with support for 4Gb memory. Either rebuild yourself, or find a suitable opensuse kernel. (maybe a -bigsmp version).

/Per Jessen, Zürich

Works perfectly fine for my 4 and 8 GB memory machines. Just plug in the DVD and install, it chooses the right kernel automatically. In my case on the 4GB box, uname -r 2.6.16.27-0.9-smp

Thanks for the reply's The system wont boot with -bigsmp. It stop's after "request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-464c", the console is still responsive ([num-lock],[ctr-alt-del],etc), but it doesn't boot any furder. For what's it's wort: The first install was a netinstall (boot from mini-iso). Now i downloaded the DVD iso, during boot i get: Could not find installation CD. Activate manual setup program. (being used to text installers, i didn't realize it the first time). When i continue and select system information> memory it does report 4 GB of RAM. (installer kernel reports as 2.6.18.2-24-default) Any pointers would be appreciated. -- Bas Hendriks - bas@cybox.nl - 0485 578979 CYBOX internet & Communicatie info@cybox.nl - www.cybox.nl - 0485 471774 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Andreas Jaeger schreef:

Bas hendriks writes:

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Anders Norrbring schreef:

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Per Jessen skrev:

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Bas hendriks wrote:

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I am building a vmware server with SuSe10.2/64 as host os. The problem is that only 2 Gb ram is available in SuSe, while 4 Gb is installed.

I think you need to use a kernel with support for 4Gb memory. Either rebuild yourself, or find a suitable opensuse kernel. (maybe a -bigsmp version).

/Per Jessen, Zürich

Works perfectly fine for my 4 and 8 GB memory machines. Just plug in the DVD and install, it chooses the right kernel automatically. In my case on the 4GB box, uname -r 2.6.16.27-0.9-smp

Thanks for the reply's

The system wont boot with -bigsmp.

Bigsmp? Are you running a 64-bit x86-64 kernel? That one has no bigsmp, just use the smp kernel (or on 10.2: The default one).

Andreas

I didn't understand the advice to run -bigsmp as i don't need PEA on i386_64 to address full memory (a specific 32bit way), but i didn't know if there where other difference between the kernel's and i guessed that on a 64bit system the packet manager (YaST) only made 64bits kernel's available. As warned before: I'm farly new to SuSe/linux ;-) I'll try i386_32 with PEA now. -- Bas Hendriks - bas@cybox.nl - 0485 578979 CYBOX internet & Communicatie info@cybox.nl - www.cybox.nl - 0485 471774 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Andreas Jaeger schreef:

Bas hendriks writes:

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Andreas Jaeger schreef:

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Bas hendriks writes:

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Anders Norrbring schreef:

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Per Jessen skrev:

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Bas hendriks wrote:

> I am building a vmware server with SuSe10.2/64 as host os. > The problem is that only 2 Gb ram is available in SuSe, while 4 Gb is > installed. > > I think you need to use a kernel with support for 4Gb memory. Either rebuild yourself, or find a suitable opensuse kernel. (maybe a -bigsmp version).

/Per Jessen, Zürich

Works perfectly fine for my 4 and 8 GB memory machines. Just plug in the DVD and install, it chooses the right kernel automatically. In my case on the 4GB box, uname -r 2.6.16.27-0.9-smp

Thanks for the reply's

The system wont boot with -bigsmp.

Bigsmp? Are you running a 64-bit x86-64 kernel? That one has no bigsmp, just use the smp kernel (or on 10.2: The default one).

Andreas

I didn't understand the advice to run -bigsmp as i don't need PEA on i386_64 to address full memory (a specific 32bit way), but i didn't know if there where other difference between the kernel's and i guessed that on a 64bit system the packet manager (YaST) only made 64bits kernel's available.

As warned before: I'm farly new to SuSe/linux ;-)

I'll try i386_32 with PEA now.

The default 64-bit x86-64 kernel should support this without problems.

I assumed that you run into the following problem: you run the 32-bit bigsmp kernel on a 64-bit system - and then it would not boot at all...

Andreas

Without doubt that was the reason it didn't boot the last time, but i originally started out with a default x86-64 install with a 2.6.18.8-0.1-default kernel, but i only had 2Gb of the 4GB ram available(see original post). Then i got suggestion to try the -bigsmp kernel. -- Bas Hendriks - bas@cybox.nl - 0485 578979 CYBOX internet & Communicatie info@cybox.nl - www.cybox.nl - 0485 471774 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org