Re: Question about the new kernel with PAE (Wheezy)
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:16:02 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
> On 06/21/2011 10:59 AM, Camaleón wrote:
>> But now the day has come and I've got two questions:
>>
>> 1. Will the PAE kernel work on this VM? I guess no.
>>
>> 2. Shouldn't the dist-upgrade routine had to automatically determine
>> the best kernel for this system? Or at least provide some kind of
>> warning? I think a 486 kernel would be a more sensitive choice.
>>
>> Any commnents?
>
> Hi, Camaleón!
>
> My spare sub-notebook (Panasonic CF-R3) shows
(...)
Another guy with a non PAE system. Welcome to the club ;-P
> Since this is my spare notebook, and I can mess it up if I want to, I
> decided to go ahead and give the kernel upgrade a shot. As expected, I
> got a message from aptitude about the kernel not being supported by the
> processor on this system. The message suggested installing the 486
> kernel and removing the newly obsoleted 686 kernel.
Mmm... so aptitude warned you. That's good. But then, why it selects a
kernel that won't work on your system? That's diabolic }:-)
Anyway, that answers my question 1 and somehow the question 2, thanks.
> For the heck of it, I went ahead and installed it anyway, but the new
> kernel was listed as not configured. I decided to be a good boy, install
> the 486 kernel, and remove the new (unconfigured PAE version) and old
> 686 kernels. All is well.
Thanks for sharing your experience, very much appreciated. I think I will
directly go for a 486 kernel...
> Aptitude was nice to me. And that's what happens if you try to install
> the inappropriate kernel on a physical machine. I imagine it'll work the
> same way on a VM, but my imagination is sometimes not very bright!
>
> ;-)
Yep, I also think so. But I wondered how "apt-get dist-upgrade" would
handle this sitution. I bet that it will report something similar to
aptitude... heck, I'm tempted to get the "I-know-it-won't-work" suggested
kernel update to see what happens O:-)
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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