generic kernel and Cedarview drivers

[Gary Kirkpatrick]

On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:

> Gary Kirkpatrick wrote:
> > http://ef.gy/ubuntu-cedarview-drivers
> >
> > The problem is removing the pae's.  I have Lubuntu on this system too
> > and if I remove the pae's I will remove the one(s) for Lubuntu too.
> > I tried and this is what happened.  Do  I need to do this step?  Or
> > is there a way to avoid deleting the kernels on the Lubuntu
> > partition?  Recovering them afterwards does not seem possible, at
> > least not for me.
>
> First of all, the kernels on another partition are not relevant for the
> running system, so you don't need to remove them.
>
> You don't even need to remove the pae kernels from the current
> partition. If the pae kernel and the generic version of the same kernel
> are installed, the pae kernel is automatically started by Grub. However
> if you select the generic kernel from the Grub boot menu, that is the
> one used for your system. Any driver that needs headers or modules for
> the current kernel knows how to find the appropriate data. Otherwise it
> would also be a problem to have older kernels installed. And the author
> of the article even writes, that removing the pae kernels is the easy
> way to do it:
>
> | What the documentation DOESN'T mention - presumably because it doesn't
> | exist - is that you MUST make sure that you're not using Ubuntu's
> | generic PAE kernel. An easy way to make certain of that would be to
> | install the regular, generic kernel and to then remove the PAE kernel
> | like so:
>
>
> Nils
>
>

Thanks for clarifying this for me.


garyk
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