On Tue, 2014-02-25 at 13:37 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: > Cyril Brulebois writes ("Re: Bug#602506: HP DL165 boot crash with lenny i386 686 but OK with -bigmem or amd64"): > > Either way, kernel selection was adjusted over the last release cycles, > > especially after kernel flavours were reduced to a bare minimum. I doubt > > this bug is still current, so closing for now. > > Fair enough. I don't have a reasonable way to try to repro this right > now. If I do get a chance to try this with wheezy I will reopen this > bug if it is still present. > > Thanks for your consideration. This is a 12-core system. In lenny, the 686 flavour supported only 8 CPUs whereas the 686-bigmem flavour supported 32, and I suspect that this led to the boot failure (though I would have expected the extra CPUs to simply be unused - and obviously that did work for the 486 (single CPU) kernel in the installer). Also, I expect that this system has at least 4GB of RAM, some of which would have been inaccessible with the 686 flavour even if it could boot. I believe this was fixed in squeeze as: - Starting with linux 2.6.30-1, both 686 and 686-bigmem flavours supported up to 32 CPUs - I changed d-i's kernel flavour selection to use 686-bigmem if PAE is supported and there is RAM with a physical address above 4GB, so the 686 flavour would not be selected for this system In wheezy the 686-pae flavour (renamed 686-bigmem) is installed on all systems supporting PAE. Not that I would recommend installing i386 on a 64-bit capable system, anyway. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Albert Einstein
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