Re: Question about the new kernel with PAE (Wheezy) - Report

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:21:48 +0200, Alberto Luaces wrote:

> Camaleón writes:
> 
>> On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:16:02 +0200, Alberto Luaces wrote:
>>
>>> Dom writes:
>>> 
>>>> Now here's the thing. I did the install, got the warning from the
>>>> meta-package (linux-image-2.6-686), and the kernel installed - as you
>>>> said.
>>>>
>>>> I then rebooted and... it works fine.
>>> 
>>> It happened to me too!
>>
>> Wow! You both must be the smartest of the classroom :-)
>>
>> Now seriously, how can be that?
> 
> Could it be that the script checks other things that just the presence
> of those words in cpuinfo?

Yep, because having a cpu with no "real" PAE support (being a physical 
micro or a virtualized one) cannot lead to a kernel pae being booted, it 
should fail.

One question remains... why cpuinfo "lies" about CPU capabilities? 
Bug? :-?

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón