Re: Question about the new kernel with PAE (Wheezy) - Report

2011-06-22 Thread Steven
On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 05:44 +0100, Dom wrote: > On 21/06/11 18:52, Camaleón wrote: [...] > > Now here's the thing. I did the install, got the warning from the > meta-package (linux-image-2.6-686), and the kernel installed - as you said. > > I then rebooted and... it works fine. > Not quite... i

Re: Question about the new kernel with PAE (Wheezy) - Report

2011-06-22 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:51:49 +0100, Dom wrote: > On 22/06/11 12:21, Camaleón wrote: >> It decided to install the PAE kernel instead the 486 (non-PAE). Why? As >> I hadn't installed a "linux-image-2.6-686-pae" previously I'd expected >> a non-PAE update, and given that "-686" was not available, "-

Re: Question about the new kernel with PAE (Wheezy) - Report

2011-06-22 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:54:37 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-06-22 13:21 +0200, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:06:33 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> >> (...) >> But just out of curiosity, what's the raw logic behind the routine that decided to install a PAE kernel instea

Re: Question about the new kernel with PAE (Wheezy) - Report

2011-06-22 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:16:10 +0100, Dom wrote: > On 22/06/11 12:10, Camaleón wrote: >> Now seriously, how can be that? >> >> I know there were a set of Pentium M processors models that had enabled >> PAE/NX but if that's the case, cpuinfo should expose both flags ("pae" >> and "nx"), which is not

Re: Question about the new kernel with PAE (Wheezy) - Report

2011-06-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-06-22 13:21 +0200, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:06:33 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > > (...) > >>> But just out of curiosity, what's the raw logic behind the routine that >>> decided to install a PAE kernel instead another one? Why the installer >>> took such option? :-? >> >> I

Re: Question about the new kernel with PAE (Wheezy) - Report

2011-06-22 Thread Dom
On 22/06/11 12:21, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:06:33 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: (...) But just out of curiosity, what's the raw logic behind the routine that decided to install a PAE kernel instead another one? Why the installer took such option? :-? It didn't. Well, it did. Th

Re: Question about the new kernel with PAE (Wheezy) - Report

2011-06-22 Thread Dom
On 22/06/11 12:10, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:16:02 +0200, Alberto Luaces wrote: Dom writes: Now here's the thing. I did the install, got the warning from the meta-package (linux-image-2.6-686), and the kernel installed - as you said. I then rebooted and... it works fine. It ha

Re: Question about the new kernel with PAE (Wheezy) - Report

2011-06-22 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:21:48 +0200, Alberto Luaces wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:16:02 +0200, Alberto Luaces wrote: >> >>> Dom writes: >>> Now here's the thing. I did the install, got the warning from the meta-package (linux-image-2.6-686), and the kernel instal

Re: Question about the new kernel with PAE (Wheezy) - Report

2011-06-22 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:06:33 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: (...) >> But just out of curiosity, what's the raw logic behind the routine that >> decided to install a PAE kernel instead another one? Why the installer >> took such option? :-? > > It didn't. Well, it did. The following NEW packages

Re: Question about the new kernel with PAE (Wheezy) - Report

2011-06-22 Thread Alberto Luaces
Camaleón writes: > On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:16:02 +0200, Alberto Luaces wrote: > >> Dom writes: >> >>> Now here's the thing. I did the install, got the warning from the >>> meta-package (linux-image-2.6-686), and the kernel installed - as you >>> said. >>> >>> I then rebooted and... it works fine.

Re: Question about the new kernel with PAE (Wheezy) - Report

2011-06-22 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:16:02 +0200, Alberto Luaces wrote: > Dom writes: > >> Now here's the thing. I did the install, got the warning from the >> meta-package (linux-image-2.6-686), and the kernel installed - as you >> said. >> >> I then rebooted and... it works fine. > > It happened to me too!

Re: Question about the new kernel with PAE (Wheezy) - Report

2011-06-22 Thread Alberto Luaces
Dom writes: > Now here's the thing. I did the install, got the warning from the > meta-package (linux-image-2.6-686), and the kernel installed - as you > said. > > I then rebooted and... it works fine. It happened to me too! -- Alberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.de

Re: Question about the new kernel with PAE (Wheezy) - Report

2011-06-21 Thread Dom
On 21/06/11 18:52, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:22:48 +0100, Dom wrote: I'll find that out what apt does tomorrow when I try to upgrade my main laptop which doesn't have pae support, and will report the results. I'll give you some tips as I couldn't retain my self and performed the

Re: Question about the new kernel with PAE (Wheezy) - Report

2011-06-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-06-21 20:37 +0200, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:13:06 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> On 2011-06-21 19:52 +0200, Camaleón wrote: >> >>> Well, if you agree with the update, the pae kernel installs despite it >>> warns about it will not work (and when you boot with it, it fails

Re: Question about the new kernel with PAE (Wheezy) - Report

2011-06-21 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:05:04 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > On 06/21/2011 01:52 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> So in the end you need to manually remove the pae kernel and install >> the 486, as Gilbert suggested. >> >> I still think this should have been automagically done by the upgrade. >> Why proce

Re: Question about the new kernel with PAE (Wheezy) - Report

2011-06-21 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:13:06 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-06-21 19:52 +0200, Camaleón wrote: > >> Well, if you agree with the update, the pae kernel installs despite it >> warns about it will not work (and when you boot with it, it fails as >> expected). You can still boot with the old ke

Re: Question about the new kernel with PAE (Wheezy) - Report

2011-06-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-06-21 19:52 +0200, Camaleón wrote: > Well, if you agree with the update, the pae kernel installs despite it > warns about it will not work (and when you boot with it, it fails as > expected). You can still boot with the old kernel (good job!). > > So in the end you need to manually remov

Re: Question about the new kernel with PAE (Wheezy) - Report

2011-06-21 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 06/21/2011 01:52 PM, Camaleón wrote: Well, if you agree with the update, the pae kernel installs despite it warns about it will not work (and when you boot with it, it fails as expected). You can still boot with the old kernel (good job!). So in the end you need to manually remove the pae ker

Re: Question about the new kernel with PAE (Wheezy) - Report

2011-06-21 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:22:48 +0100, Dom wrote: > On 21/06/11 17:33, Camaleón wrote: >> On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:16:02 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: (...) >>> Aptitude was nice to me. >> >> Yep, I also think so. But I wondered how "apt-get dist-upgrade" would >> handle this sitution. I bet that it