Re: PAE kernels on old P4's (WAS Re: Latest update borks)
> On 05/03/12 09:48 PM, Rui Miguel P. Bernardo wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 2:44 AM, Rui Miguel P. Bernardo
>> <rui.bernardo.pt@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Frank
>>> McCormick<debianlist@videotron.ca> wrote:
>>>> On 05/03/12 03:38 PM, Sven Joachim wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2012-03-05 14:46 +0100, Frank McCormick wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> The latest upgrade to Sid has apparently borked creation of
>>>>>> initrd.img.
>>>>>> This is what was upgraded:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
>>>>>> update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-2-686
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Why are you running such an old kernel?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The 3.0 series PAE kernels won't run on this machine...
Yes they do.
I'm currently running 686 PAE 3.2.7-1 on a Pentium 4, 2.8 GHz machine -
this one - on a separate install.
Qualifying remark - no gui, but it runs just fine.
I don't need that capability on this processor, but it defaults to what's
required.
Regards,
Weaver.
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