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

John Summerfield debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Fri Apr 17 16:12:08 UTC 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.

Do you have an objection to running 64-bit Fedora? It obsoletes PAE, and 
your applications can see all available RAM, not just the 4 Gbytes 
32-bit addresses give.



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Cheers
John

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