Re: Question about the new kernel with PAE (Wheezy) - Report

2011-06-22 Thread Alberto Luaces
Dom writes: Now here's the thing. I did the install, got the warning from the meta-package (linux-image-2.6-686), and the kernel installed - as you said. I then rebooted and... it works fine. It happened to me too! -- Alberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Question about the new kernel with PAE (Wheezy) - Report

2011-06-22 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:16:02 +0200, Alberto Luaces wrote: Dom writes: Now here's the thing. I did the install, got the warning from the meta-package (linux-image-2.6-686), and the kernel installed - as you said. I then rebooted and... it works fine. It happened to me too! Wow! You

Re: Question about the new kernel with PAE (Wheezy) - Report

2011-06-22 Thread Alberto Luaces
Camaleón writes: On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:16:02 +0200, Alberto Luaces wrote: Dom writes: Now here's the thing. I did the install, got the warning from the meta-package (linux-image-2.6-686), and the kernel installed - as you said. I then rebooted and... it works fine. It happened to me

Re: Question about the new kernel with PAE (Wheezy) - Report

2011-06-22 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:06:33 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: (...) But just out of curiosity, what's the raw logic behind the routine that decided to install a PAE kernel instead another one? Why the installer took such option? :-? It didn't. Well, it did. The following NEW packages will

Re: Question about the new kernel with PAE (Wheezy) - Report

2011-06-22 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:21:48 +0200, Alberto Luaces wrote: Camaleón writes: On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:16:02 +0200, Alberto Luaces wrote: Dom writes: Now here's the thing. I did the install, got the warning from the meta-package (linux-image-2.6-686), and the kernel installed - as you said.

Re: Question about the new kernel with PAE (Wheezy) - Report

2011-06-22 Thread Dom
On 22/06/11 12:10, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:16:02 +0200, Alberto Luaces wrote: Dom writes: Now here's the thing. I did the install, got the warning from the meta-package (linux-image-2.6-686), and the kernel installed - as you said. I then rebooted and... it works fine. It

Re: Question about the new kernel with PAE (Wheezy) - Report

2011-06-22 Thread Dom
On 22/06/11 12:21, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:06:33 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: (...) But just out of curiosity, what's the raw logic behind the routine that decided to install a PAE kernel instead another one? Why the installer took such option? :-? It didn't. Well, it did.

Re: Question about the new kernel with PAE (Wheezy) - Report

2011-06-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-06-22 13:21 +0200, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:06:33 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: (...) But just out of curiosity, what's the raw logic behind the routine that decided to install a PAE kernel instead another one? Why the installer took such option? :-? It didn't.

Re: Question about the new kernel with PAE (Wheezy) - Report

2011-06-22 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:16:10 +0100, Dom wrote: On 22/06/11 12:10, Camaleón wrote: Now seriously, how can be that? I know there were a set of Pentium M processors models that had enabled PAE/NX but if that's the case, cpuinfo should expose both flags (pae and nx), which is not the case.

Re: Question about the new kernel with PAE (Wheezy) - Report

2011-06-22 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:54:37 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-06-22 13:21 +0200, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:06:33 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: (...) But just out of curiosity, what's the raw logic behind the routine that decided to install a PAE kernel instead another one?

Re: Question about the new kernel with PAE (Wheezy) - Report

2011-06-22 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:51:49 +0100, Dom wrote: On 22/06/11 12:21, Camaleón wrote: It decided to install the PAE kernel instead the 486 (non-PAE). Why? As I hadn't installed a linux-image-2.6-686-pae previously I'd expected a non-PAE update, and given that -686 was not available, -486 seemed

Re: Question about the new kernel with PAE (Wheezy) - Report

2011-06-22 Thread Steven
On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 05:44 +0100, Dom wrote: On 21/06/11 18:52, Camaleón wrote: [...] Now here's the thing. I did the install, got the warning from the meta-package (linux-image-2.6-686), and the kernel installed - as you said. I then rebooted and... it works fine. Not quite... in my

Question about the new kernel with PAE (Wheezy)

2011-06-21 Thread Camaleón
Hello, On my testing VM machine, I'm currently running: root@debian:~# uname -a Linux debian 2.6.38-2-686 #1 SMP Sun May 8 14:49:45 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux Today, I've just run a dist-upgrade and see this: The following NEW packages will be installed: linux-image-2.6.39-2-686-pae (2.6.39-2)

Re: Question about the new kernel with PAE (Wheezy)

2011-06-21 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 06/21/2011 10:59 AM, Camaleón wrote: But now the day has come and I've got two questions: 1. Will the PAE kernel work on this VM? I guess no. 2. Shouldn't the dist-upgrade routine had to automatically determine the best kernel for this system? Or at least provide some kind of warning? I

Re: Question about the new kernel with PAE (Wheezy)

2011-06-21 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:16:02 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: On 06/21/2011 10:59 AM, Camaleón wrote: But now the day has come and I've got two questions: 1. Will the PAE kernel work on this VM? I guess no. 2. Shouldn't the dist-upgrade routine had to automatically determine the best kernel

Re: Question about the new kernel with PAE (Wheezy)

2011-06-21 Thread Dom
On 21/06/11 17:33, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:16:02 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: On 06/21/2011 10:59 AM, Camaleón wrote: But now the day has come and I've got two questions: 1. Will the PAE kernel work on this VM? I guess no. 2. Shouldn't the dist-upgrade routine had to

Re: Question about the new kernel with PAE (Wheezy) - Report

2011-06-21 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:22:48 +0100, Dom wrote: On 21/06/11 17:33, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:16:02 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: (...) Aptitude was nice to me. Yep, I also think so. But I wondered how apt-get dist-upgrade would handle this sitution. I bet that it will report

Re: Question about the new kernel with PAE (Wheezy) - Report

2011-06-21 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 06/21/2011 01:52 PM, Camaleón wrote: Well, if you agree with the update, the pae kernel installs despite it warns about it will not work (and when you boot with it, it fails as expected). You can still boot with the old kernel (good job!). So in the end you need to manually remove the pae

Re: Question about the new kernel with PAE (Wheezy) - Report

2011-06-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-06-21 19:52 +0200, Camaleón wrote: Well, if you agree with the update, the pae kernel installs despite it warns about it will not work (and when you boot with it, it fails as expected). You can still boot with the old kernel (good job!). So in the end you need to manually remove

Re: Question about the new kernel with PAE (Wheezy) - Report

2011-06-21 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:13:06 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-06-21 19:52 +0200, Camaleón wrote: Well, if you agree with the update, the pae kernel installs despite it warns about it will not work (and when you boot with it, it fails as expected). You can still boot with the old kernel

Re: Question about the new kernel with PAE (Wheezy) - Report

2011-06-21 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:05:04 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: On 06/21/2011 01:52 PM, Camaleón wrote: So in the end you need to manually remove the pae kernel and install the 486, as Gilbert suggested. I still think this should have been automagically done by the upgrade. Why proceed with

Re: Question about the new kernel with PAE (Wheezy) - Report

2011-06-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-06-21 20:37 +0200, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:13:06 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-06-21 19:52 +0200, Camaleón wrote: Well, if you agree with the update, the pae kernel installs despite it warns about it will not work (and when you boot with it, it fails as

Re: Question about the new kernel with PAE (Wheezy) - Report

2011-06-21 Thread Dom
On 21/06/11 18:52, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:22:48 +0100, Dom wrote: I'll find that out what apt does tomorrow when I try to upgrade my main laptop which doesn't have pae support, and will report the results. I'll give you some tips as I couldn't retain my self and performed