{"id":2053,"date":"2008-09-07T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T00:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/wordpress\/?p=2053"},"modified":"2008-09-07T17:08:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T00:08:00","slug":"dell-2650-centos-and-more-than-4g-of-ram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/uncategorized\/dell-2650-centos-and-more-than-4g-of-ram","title":{"rendered":"Dell 2650, CentOS, and more than 4G of RAM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who might be running into the same problem I was with using CentOS&#8217;s PAE kernel to support more than 4G of RAM &#8211; where the system would crash during the boot process &#8211; the solution is to upgrade the firmware for the RAID controller. You can find firmware for the PERC (Dell&#8217;s rebranded Adaptec RAID controller) on Dell&#8217;s web site &#8211; it requires two floppy disks and is a self-extracting archive that will write itself to the floppies. Those of you like me who haven&#8217;t been keeping floppy drives in your computers will be happy to know that a external USB floppy drive works just fine for writing the firmware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who might be running into the same problem I was with using CentOS&#8217;s PAE kernel to support more than 4G of RAM &#8211; where the system would crash during the boot process &#8211; the solution is to upgrade the firmware for the RAID controller. You can find firmware for the PERC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}