wine users - Feb 2009 - Re: Over 4GB RAM issue

tparker wrote:
> Thanks I will try mem=3G when I can. Does anyone know how I get past the
kernel panic to re-edit grub.conf?

You could edit the line right before the start in grub. Simply press a key to
stop booting the default kernel and then press 'e' to edit the entry.
And 'e' to edit the line. Change the mem parameter and press 'b'
to boot the kernel. (I don't know if these are the correct keys but there is
an explanation on the screen, after you hit a key to interrupt grub not to start
the default kernel.)

Thank you very much Austin and Rico. I was able to follow your instructions and
changed the '3072' to '3G' and the kernel booted.

Is there a way to have a note added about that to the section of the how to at
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=14154 since the
format it says is "mem=3072 (for 3GB) or mem=2048 (For 2GB)"? Just in
case some other newb runs into this problem as well. :)

After the system boot I checked the 'about this computer' and it says I
have 3GB RAM, not 5GB, so it looks  like that worked. Now I'm off to load
WoW and Vent and see if they still use too much memory and crash.

Thank you again for your time and patience.