PAE kernels on old P4's (WAS Re: Latest update borks)

[Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca>]

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...
> > >
> > > But it apparently does not only affect 2.6 kernels...
> >
> > Hi, unrelated to the issue here in discussion, but about running the
> > new kernel series in old P4 with pae (I got a p4 2.8 ht). I found in
> > http://bugs.debian.org/659866 a boot option to boot the new kernel
> > series in my old p4 and it works.
> >
> >         processor.nocst=1
> >
> >
> > Hope it helps someway,
> >
> > Rui Miguel P. Bernardo
>
> Sorry, wrong link, it was http://bugs.debian.org/632734


  If you read all the way to the end of that bug report [1] the Fedora 
people found the problem which was acpi-related. They apparently have
a 3 series kernel now which handles everything.
Good news for us I guess :)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=727865

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Cheers
Frank