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Bug#827044: Non PAE kernel loads just fine (?)



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On Sun, 2016-06-12 at 15:29 +0200, Camaleón wrote:
> I finally managed to install a non-pae kernel (linux-image-4.5.0-2-686) 
> on the virtual machine with PAE enabled and no hardware virtualization 
> extensions available and it loads just fine. I can't guess what's going 
> on here given that PAE and VT-x (or AMD's counterpart) are neither hard 
> linked nor binded so, what's preventing a PAE enabled kernel from booting on a 
> virtual machine with PAE flag on but no virtualization extensions 
> configured? I'm definitely puzzled.

Please test whether this is fixed in Linux 4.6 (currently in unstable).

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
The program is absolutely right; therefore, the computer must be wrong.

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