On Sat, 2013-02-23 at 13:36 -0500, deb...@paulscrap.com wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Last night I updated an older laptop of mine from Squeeze to Wheezy. > It went fine, but I did run into an odd particularity. > > This system (Dell D505) has a Pentium M processor. My understanding is > that the Pentium M's are just about the only modern(ish) processor > without pae, and thus kernels with pae compiled in can't run on it. (pae > doesn't show up in the cpu flags) > > During the upgrade I did get warnings about it not supporting pae, so I > did make sure to install the 486 image, but forgot to remove the 686-pae > (removed 686, though). That's not a big deal, though. It just means > I'd have to select the 486 kernel to boot up and fix it, right? > > I wasn't paying attention during reboot, and it went to 686-pae by > default. Imagine my surprise when it started up with no problems. It's > still running on that kernel!
A couple of weeks ago I installed Wheezy on a Pentium M machine and had a similar experience choosing a kernel version. I ended up trying 686-pae because there wasn't a plain 686 like in in Squeeze and found it worked, even though though my CPU didn't have PAE. -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1361710851.4170.5.ca...@computer5.home
