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

[Dom <toyer@rpdom.net>]

On 22/06/11 12:10, Camaleón wrote:
> 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 :-)

Thank you. I wish I were ;-)

> Now seriously, how can be that?
>
> I know there were a set of Pentium M processors models that had enabled
> PAE/NX but if that's the case, cpuinfo should expose both flags ("pae"
> and "nx"), which is not the case.

Checking on the Intel site ( http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=27577 
) shows that my CPU does support PAE, although a message during startup 
( Notice: NX (Execute Disable) protection missing in CPU! ) seems to 
indicate that it doesn't support NX.

--
Dom