kernel-PAE hangs at boot -- did I do something wrong?

Adam Pribyl pribyl at lowlevel.cz
Sat Apr 18 21:39:27 UTC 2009


On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Mary Ellen Foster wrote:

> I installed last night from the KDE Snapshot 1 disc, and today I
> noticed that my kernel was i586. I wasn't noticing any actual
> problems, but from what I've read most modern Pentium-esque processors
> should be able to support the i686-PAE kernel so I wanted to try it.
>
> I just did "yum install kernel-PAE" which got me
> kernel-PAE-2.6.29.1-70.fc11.i686. When I try to boot this kernel, it
> seems to hang at the end of the boot process, when you would normally
> switch to the login screen. Booting single-user works fine, but then
> telinit 3/5 will hang. Note that booting kernel-2.6.29.1-70.fc11.i586
> works just fine.
>
> My processor is an "Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     P8600  @ 2.40GHz"
> -- should this support the PAE kernel? Is there some other way I
> should install it?
>

You should check the architecture of other packages like glibc. I am not 
sure what is the status now, but it used to be like that there were also 
glibc packages specific for i586, those did not play nice with i686 
kernel.

> MEF
>

Adam Pribyl




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