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Subject: Re: kpanic on install >32GB of RAM
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on 15/10/2010 19:04 Sean Bruno said the following:
> So, trying to get a massively overpowered HP box up with 7.3 amd64
> version up and running.
> 
> I can't tell at the moment, but it looks like the installer kernel is
> having issues with >32GB of RAM in this box.
> 
> Are we using the i386 kernel on amd64 installs?

Is there anything else peculiar about this system besides RAM?
Because 32GB+ do not impress actually :)

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Andriy Gapon