On 14 May 2013 13:26, Byte Soup <bytes...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi All, has anyone tried to boot a Ubuntu Server live DVD / CD for the above > CPU, I managed to get knoppix to boot and I see the following details on the > CPU (using "lscpu"): > > Architecture: i686 > CPU(s): 1 > Threads: 1 > Cores: 1 > CPU sockets: 1 > Vendor Id: CentaurHauls > CPU family: 6 > Model: 9 > Stepping: 5 > CPU Mhz: 1002.291 > > A bit of googling shows older release like 9.04 were ok with supporting this > but not later versions. Im thinking maybe I could boot the server DVD and > then go on to install it if I had the right kernel parameters? > > Any advice would be appreciated > > Thanks > > Mark > > > The C3 doesn't have PAE support [1]. This means the more recent kernels (IIRC quantal and up) won't boot as their config has PAE as a requirement. You'll either need to compile your own, or use a distro that retains support for those older non-PAE chips.
Jonathon [1] From http://datasheets.chipdb.org/VIA/Nehemiah/VIA%20C3%20Nehemiah%20Datasheet%20R113.pdf , page 2-12 (24?): "Physical Address Extensions: PAE This function is omitted since the target market for the VIA C3 Nehemiah processor is portables and typical desktop systems. These systems do not use 2 MB paging and have greater than 4 GB of system memory." -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
