On Sun, 2013-02-24 at 13:00 +0000, Tixy wrote: > On Sat, 2013-02-23 at 13:36 -0500, deb...@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.
Actually, I just double checked, and my CPU [1] does have PAE after all. I was confused because it only has 32-bit physical address size (and so doesn't benefit from any 'Extension' to the physical address). [1] http://ark.intel.com/products/27586 -- Tixy -- 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/1361713289.4170.22.ca...@computer5.home
