On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 15:27 -0700, John Reiser wrote: > $ grep ' pae ' < /proc/cpuinfo > flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca > cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm > > So that machine has the necessary harware. If ' pae ' is missing, > then such a machine does not have good enough hardware. This is not entirely true. At least one laptop within Red Hat does NOT advertise PAE, but boots the kernel just fine (when the checking for pae in said file is disabled). So it would seem that there are chips out there that LIE about what they can do :/ -- Jesse Keating RHCE (geek.j2solutions.net) Fedora Legacy Team (www.fedoralegacy.org) GPG Public Key (geek.j2solutions.net/jkeating.j2solutions.pub)
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