From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.9-7 i686) Description of problem: I used up2date to get the latest kernel from RedHat, kernel 2.4.9-7. But after I installed it, my memory as shown in 'top' was only 900Mb instead of 1.5Gb. Whoever made this kernel didn't enable the '> 1Gb RAM' option in the kernel. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install > 1Gb RAM in system 2. Boot to 2.4.9-7 kernel 3. See only 900Mb of RAM Actual Results: I see only 900Mb of RAM Expected Results: I should've seen 1.5Gb, as the RH kernel 2.4.7 showed Additional info:
Can you run the following command to see which architecture kernel you have installed: rpm -q --qf "%{ARCH}" kernel
rpm -q --qf "%{ARCH}" kernel athloni386
Ok so you have an athlon kernel and an i386 kernel... the second one will be the one up2date send you; the i386 kernel doesn't have support for > 1Gb indeed; the athlon and i686 ones do. I'll assign this bug to up2date as that's where the bug is; to get your system back to working the easiest will be to manually download the athlon 2.4.9-7 rpm and rpm -e kernel-2.4.9-7 and then rpm -i the downloaded athlon kernel.
The next version of the client will properly handle athlon kernels.
This should be fixed in all current versions of the client.