Bug 188233 – Description isn't correct

Bug 188233 - Description isn't correct

Summary:	Description isn't correct

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	kernel (Show other bugs)
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Version:	2.1
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Don Howard
QA Contact:	Brian Brock
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Reported:	2006-04-07 06:56 EDT by Laurence Darby
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:06 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2006-04-07 14:24:58 EDT
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Description Laurence Darby 2006-04-07 06:56:38 EDT

Description of problem:

The Description of package kernel-enterprise-2.4.9-e.68.i686.rpm could be 
improved.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

all versions of kernel-enterprise-2.4.9

How reproducible:

Never.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. With only a 4GB RAM system, completely forget about the enterprise kernel 
from the start because it's described as for systems with more than 4GB.
2. Boot kernel-smp
3. See that only 3 GB of memory is available on the 4GB system
 
Actual results:
Expected results:

The kernel-smp should use 4GB of RAM.  

Fix:

The description for the enterprise kernel should say it is for systems with more 
than 3GB of RAM.

Comment 1 Don Howard 2006-04-07 14:24:58 EDT

The description states that enterprise kernels are configured for 4GB _or more_:

    "This package includes a kernel that has appropriate configuration options
     enabled for Pentium III machines with 4 Gigabyte of memory or more."

I can see where that might be misinterpreted to mean that the enterprise kernel
is not intended for systems with less than 4GB, but the required minimum memory
is documented out here: http://www.redhat.com/rhel/details/limits/

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