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[Buist Justin]

> Unfortunately there is no smp enterprise rpm on the RH7.0 disk.
> 
> Dirk


You might want to just grab the source RPM from the CD then, unpack it and do a 'make oldconfig'.  Then just head into your favorite kernel config system and enable high memory support for stuff up to 4GB.  If memory serves, your plain vanilla kernel source is going to build with just 1GB of RAM support, which explains why you can't use the chip that brings you past that limit.

I'm thinking mem= won't really do anything for you.  If I'm not mistaken all that does is tell the kernel that the BIOS is buggy and that you really do have X amount of RAM.  This used to be fairly common "back when" the jump from 2.0 to 2.2 was made... frequently anybody with over 64MB ram needed to use the mem= option due to buggy BIOSes, or maybe it was a bug in the kernel.  Whatever the cause is, I'm sure that "OS/2 support for over 64MB RAM" option that you see in BIOSes these days is related to something fruity with the x86 architecture.

Hope that helps.

Justin Buist