Problems with PAE kernel sort of solved.

[Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca>]

 I have been having problems with the new series of PAE kernels. I 
could never get them to boot on my machine (see bug #632734) . This 
morning I installed the "new" 3.0.0 kernel, and spent a half hour 
changing BIOS settings in an attempt to get it to boot. Nothing worked 
until I turned OFF the hyper-threading option. The kernel now boots 
fine, but the system does not see it as a dual-core but as  one CPU.
The proble is the system **seems** significantly slower than it was..a 
costly trade-off to run the new kernel.
I don't see the connection between the PAE option the kernel now uses 
(and which my dual core CPU supports) and hyper-threading.
Can anyone enlighten me ??


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Cheers
Frank