I have 2 or three pentium m systems to test on. may i help out with testing sodudus? (I have ibm thinkpad x41, t41, and maybe a t40 that only works on power cord/battery one or other)
On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 12:51 PM, sudodus <nio.wikl...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2013-05-19 19:22, Chris Bainbridge wrote: > >> The reason why I want people to > >> check the address size is the we are working around the check, that > >> should make it impossible to boot a non-pae CPU with a pae kernel. > > > > Fake -PAE bypasses the check to stop dpkg installing a PAE kernel. But, > > even after that, the PAE kernel won't boot on a non-PAE CPU. PAE is not > > something that gets enabled (or disabled) at runtime, it is actually a > > replacement of functions in the kernel source (#ifdef .. #endif etc.), > > so if you have a PAE kernel it will not boot on non-PAE. So it makes no > > sense to ask people to check the address size on a CPU that has already > > booted a PAE kernel, since the fact that it successfully booted a PAE > > kernel means it must support PAE. (afaik - this is from the > > documentation, I do not have a non-Pentium-M non-PAE system to test > > with) > > > I see your point. I will look for some links, that support what you say, > and change the text accordingly. If you have a link available, please > send it to me :-) > > Can you explain why the non-pae ubuntu code reports 32 bits physical > memory, while the pae code reports 36 bits? Some people say it should > report the same. But there is a difference on the computers I have tested. > > -o- > > If it is the general truth that non-pae CPUs won't boot at all, it is > even harder to understand why the Pentium M CPUs are excluded by the > Ubuntu developers. Why are those tests implemented (in syslinux), or why > are they shutting down, and not only printing the message? > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to a > duplicate bug report (1058748). > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/930447 > > Title: > Unable to start Ubuntu 12.04 live CD with syslinux loader on Pentium M > x86 Laptop due to bug in PAE kernel, initramfs or syslinux > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/930447/+subscriptions > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/930447 Title: Unable to start Ubuntu 12.04 live CD with syslinux loader on Pentium M x86 Laptop due to bug in PAE kernel, initramfs or syslinux To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/930447/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
