On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:16:02 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > On 06/21/2011 10:59 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> But now the day has come and I've got two questions: >> >> 1. Will the PAE kernel work on this VM? I guess no. >> >> 2. Shouldn't the dist-upgrade routine had to automatically determine >> the best kernel for this system? Or at least provide some kind of >> warning? I think a 486 kernel would be a more sensitive choice. >> >> Any commnents? > > Hi, Camaleón! > > My spare sub-notebook (Panasonic CF-R3) shows
(...) Another guy with a non PAE system. Welcome to the club ;-P > Since this is my spare notebook, and I can mess it up if I want to, I > decided to go ahead and give the kernel upgrade a shot. As expected, I > got a message from aptitude about the kernel not being supported by the > processor on this system. The message suggested installing the 486 > kernel and removing the newly obsoleted 686 kernel. Mmm... so aptitude warned you. That's good. But then, why it selects a kernel that won't work on your system? That's diabolic }:-) Anyway, that answers my question 1 and somehow the question 2, thanks. > For the heck of it, I went ahead and installed it anyway, but the new > kernel was listed as not configured. I decided to be a good boy, install > the 486 kernel, and remove the new (unconfigured PAE version) and old > 686 kernels. All is well. Thanks for sharing your experience, very much appreciated. I think I will directly go for a 486 kernel... > Aptitude was nice to me. And that's what happens if you try to install > the inappropriate kernel on a physical machine. I imagine it'll work the > same way on a VM, but my imagination is sometimes not very bright! > > ;-) Yep, I also think so. But I wondered how "apt-get dist-upgrade" would handle this sitution. I bet that it will report something similar to aptitude... heck, I'm tempted to get the "I-know-it-won't-work" suggested kernel update to see what happens O:-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.06.21.16.33...@gmail.com
