Maximum memory usable in RedHat 7.x

[bkelsay at comcast.net]

This has not been a problem since the 7.0 version came out I believe.  It's
actually fixed in the 2.2 kernel series.
Brian Kelsay

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Lindinger" <jilindi at yahoo.com>
To: <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 11:54 AM
Subject: Maximum memory usable in RedHat 7.x

> One more question...
>
> My SGI 1400 system based on the Intel SC450NX board can support memory
from 128MB to
> 4000MB.  My system came with 2500MB (2.5GB) of RAM.
>
> Back in 1999, the system was independently (3rd Party) certified for
RedHat 6.0 but the
> certification notes describe a memory problem. When booting a machine with
1GB or more
> RAM, a boot paramenter MEM=960M was required because linux could not
properly deal with
> more than that amount of memory (on that system).
>
> Does anybody know if RH7 fixed this issue? I will find out soon enough,
but hoped to hear
> from someone with similar experiences before I begin the RH7 install.
>
> Best regards,
> John Lindinger
> Nebraska City, NE