Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 09:48:12PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 09:43:01PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>>     
>>> An i386 kernel should work on a box with 8G, it just will see only
>>> about 3Gb. It may not be what you expect, but it should be a solution
>>> to start working on the patches :)
>>>       
>> Doesn't work for me on a 4GB box (kernel crashes during pmap bootstrap)
>>     
>
> I guess grub isn't providing the expected infos about memory.
> Did you try setting REALEXTMEM to about 3GB (or maybe 2GB to be safe) ?
>
>   

No, but I didn't know about that.  (Hence my message to this list.)  
I'll try that tonight.

    -- Garrett