New kernel fails miserably on natty
Frank McCormick
beacon at videotron.ca
Sat Jul 16 17:20:54 UTC 2011
On 16/07/11 01:06 PM, compdoc wrote:
> *>*2.6.38.10-generic-pae fails as soon as it's selected, by restarting
> the machine at the BIOS
> >power-on self-test, scanning for controllers and hard drives etc, with
> no visible error message
> >or indication of failure. The machine is a bit old (2001 BIOS), but
> this reaction is a bit severe, I think.
> >
> >Anybody else?
>
> I have 2.6.38.10-generic running on a couple of machines now with no
> issues - but it's no PAE, as they are 64bit.
>
>
>
On my Debian Sid installation none of the PAE kernels will run. The
Kernel developers seem to think it's a hardware problem...despite the
fact earlier kernels ran (and still run) fine. My BIOS is from 2003.
YMMV
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Cheers
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