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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