automatic installation of PAE-enabled kernel?

[John Summerfield]

Michael A. Peters wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>   if i had been installing f8 on a 32-bit, PAE-enabled system with >4G
>> of RAM, would that have automatically installed the PAE version of the
>> kernel?  or would i have had to make a choice along the way?  thanks.
>>
>> rday
>  From what I understand, Anaconda has to install the kernel version it 
> booted, and that therefore, a PAE kernel is not installed by Anaconda 
> unless you do a custom respin.

Historically that has not been the case. Originally, it ran with a 
specially-built I386 kernel, but chose a 586 or 686 (or briefly an AMD) 
kernel, +SMP if appropriate.

The kernels did have to be the same release.

I believe that in RHEL Anaconda installs more than one kernel (I use 
-clone and that's one area they differ) if one chooses the VT stuff.



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