On Sun, 2012-12-16 at 19:21 +0100, Andreas Glaeser wrote: > First there were intermittent bootproblems, then more often and finally the > box would not > boot anymore at all. I tried all kinds of BIOS-settings changes, but could > not resolve > the situation, began to feel desperate already. > Then I installed the XFCE-version of Linux-Mint-Debian-Edition and found, > that this works > and that the default there is actually 'linux-image-486', which works. > linux-image-686-pae > is not bootable, but hangs upon showing the grub-menu.
And yet previously you said it was bootable. So it would seem that the hardware is progressively failing. > So the default for this machine has to be changed in Debian, too. Until this > happens, > the only workaround I can think of right now is to install in expert mode and > choose the > -486-kernel during the process. We don't have a big map of processor models to kernel flavours, we just look at what the actual processor features are. This computer has a Geode NX processor that supports PAE (since it is based on the K7 core, like the Athlon processors). It is a completely different design from the older Geode processors based on the MediaGX core, for which we would install the 486 flavour. > Having a -686-kernel without PAE again would be nicer > here, too, else users have to build their own custom kernels especially for > AMD-Geode to > get the full performance potential out of their boxes. There don't seem to be any Geode models that can run a 686 flavour but not a 686-pae flavour. Also, the 486 flavour is optimised for uniprocessor systems. Ben. > Thus changing the severity of this report to 'important'. -- Ben Hutchings Always try to do things in chronological order; it's less confusing that way.
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