How do I change from a regular kernel to a PAE kernel ?

[Kam Leo]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 20:23 -0700, Kam Leo wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Linuxguy123 <linuxguy123 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > My laptop has 4GB of RAM. It is currently using only 3 GB of RAM.  I
>> > want to upgrade to 8 GB of RAM.
>> >
>> > I am currently using a 32 bit non PAE kernel.  How do I change to using
>> > a PAE kernel ?
>>
>> yum install kernel-PAE
>>
>> Note: There may be additional packages which need to be installed,
>> e.g. kernel-PAE-devel, kmod-nvidia-PAE, etc.
>>
>> I'm surprised that Anaconda did not detect that your processor was an
>> i686 and automatically install the PAE kernel.
>>
> ----
> I think anaconda on F11 would recognize and install PAE kernel but OP
> has continually upgraded from F8 through to F11 and that probably is why
> he didn't automatically get the PAE kernel installed.

I also upgraded one of my systems all the way from F8 to F11. It only
has 512 MB of RAM and PAE was installed.

> Craig
>