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Bug#720272: marked as done (warn upon installing on non pae systems)

Your message dated Wed, 05 Oct 2016 21:26:34 +0100
with message-id <1475699194.2632.156.camel@decadent.org.uk>
and subject line Re: Bug#720272: unbootable and lead to data loss?
has caused the Debian Bug report #720272,
regarding warn upon installing on non pae systems
to be marked as done.

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Package: linux-image-686-pae
Version: 3.10+51
Severity: wishlist

Shouldn't some warning be given upon attempting to install on machines
where /proc/cpuinfo lacks pae?

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On Fri, 23 Aug 2013 18:55:02 +0800 jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
> Today I tried -686-pae on my
> model name      : Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor         1.40GHz
> flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca
cmov clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe bts
> and it booted fine...despite all expert opinion I got years ago.
> 
> That's why an official script is needed to give the correct answer.

Although the logic for PAE is present, the manufacturing tests for the
chip probably didn't cover it.  I would neither recommend using PAE on
a processor where it's not officially supported, nor try to prevent
users from taking that risk.

That's why we can't and won't script this check.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Sturgeon's Law: Ninety percent of everything is crap.

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