On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn <denni...@conversis.de> wrote: > On 12/05/2011 04:52 PM, Beartooth wrote:
>> I don't even know how to tell what kernel a prospective download >> has. I do know that some of my other PCs list kernels with and without >> "PAE" in the grub display. > > PAE means physical address extension and allows 32bit cpus to make use of > memory beyond the 4gb limit addressable with 32bit. > > Centos/RHEL 6 doesn't support cpus without this as it's hard to come by a > machine these days that doesn't have this extension. FYI, the ELRepo project now provides kernel-ml for EL6 [1] that includes a non-PAE kernel [2] (thanks to Alan Bartlett). However, one has to create an install disk/image with that kernel to perform the installation. Akemi [1] http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-ml [2] http://elrepo.org/linux/kernel/el6/i386/RPMS/ _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos