New kernel fails miserably on natty

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Frank McCormick <beacon at videotron.ca>wrote:

> On 16/07/11 01:29 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Frank McCormick <beacon at videotron.ca
>> <mailto:beacon at videotron.ca>> wrote:
>>
>>    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
>>
>> Hmmm.  I only have 2 GB RAM on this particular machine, but choose PAE
>> out of habit.  I cannot reboot mine at the moment, but I wonder if
>> 2.6.38.1-generic (no PAE)  would run?
>>
>
>  Only one way to know :)
>
> Yeah, I know, but as I said, the machine is busy right now.  I just
wondered if anyone had gotten the
non-PAE one working on a system where PAE fails.  I can't try it myself for
a few days because of the
nature of the current workload.

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
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