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

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

El 2016-06-12 a las 18:03 +0100, Ben Hutchings escribió:
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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).

PAE kernel 4.6.1-1 (available for testing¹) gets stuck at booting at the same 
stage that 4.5.0-2 so it seems it is not fixed.

¹https://packages.debian.org/stretch/linux-image-4.6.0-1-686-pae

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón