Re: Running pae kernel on non-pae system
On Sat, 2013-02-23 at 13:36 -0500, Debian@paulscrap.com wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> Last night I updated an older laptop of mine from Squeeze to Wheezy.
> It went fine, but I did run into an odd particularity.
>
> This system (Dell D505) has a Pentium M processor. My understanding is
> that the Pentium M's are just about the only modern(ish) processor
> without pae, and thus kernels with pae compiled in can't run on it. (pae
> doesn't show up in the cpu flags)
>
> During the upgrade I did get warnings about it not supporting pae, so I
> did make sure to install the 486 image, but forgot to remove the 686-pae
> (removed 686, though). That's not a big deal, though. It just means
> I'd have to select the 486 kernel to boot up and fix it, right?
>
> I wasn't paying attention during reboot, and it went to 686-pae by
> default. Imagine my surprise when it started up with no problems. It's
> still running on that kernel!
A couple of weeks ago I installed Wheezy on a Pentium M machine and had
a similar experience choosing a kernel version. I ended up trying
686-pae because there wasn't a plain 686 like in in Squeeze and found it
worked, even though though my CPU didn't have PAE.
--
Tixy
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