On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 15:13 +0100, Mary Ellen Foster wrote: > I installed last night from the KDE Snapshot 1 disc, and today I > noticed that my kernel was i586. I wasn't noticing any actual > problems, but from what I've read most modern Pentium-esque processors > should be able to support the i686-PAE kernel so I wanted to try it. > > I just did "yum install kernel-PAE" which got me > kernel-PAE-2.6.29.1-70.fc11.i686. When I try to boot this kernel, it > seems to hang at the end of the boot process, when you would normally > switch to the login screen. Booting single-user works fine, but then > telinit 3/5 will hang. Note that booting kernel-2.6.29.1-70.fc11.i586 > works just fine. > > My processor is an "Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8600 @ 2.40GHz" > -- should this support the PAE kernel? Is there some other way I > should install it? > > I'll file this in bugzilla if necessary, but I just wanted to make > sure I hadn't fundamentally misunderstood how this was supposed to > work. Yes, it should work with that CPU, and as far as I can tell you installed it correctly. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
