Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422825AbWJVBwv (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Oct 2006 21:52:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422910AbWJVBwv (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Oct 2006 21:52:51 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:42134 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422825AbWJVBwu (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Oct 2006 21:52:50 -0400 Subject: Re: PAE broken on Thinkpad From: Arjan van de Ven To: john stultz Cc: Dave Hansen , lkml In-Reply-To: <1161472697.5528.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1161472697.5528.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Intel International BV Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 03:52:44 +0200 Message-Id: <1161481965.3128.129.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 780 Lines: 20 On Sat, 2006-10-21 at 16:18 -0700, john stultz wrote: > Yea. So I know I probably shouldn't run a PAE kernel on my 1Gig laptop, > but in trying to do so I found it won't boot. which CPU do you have? Not all laptop processors support PAE at all... (for example the pentiumM generations before NX was added) check /proc/cpuinfo the flags line to see if "pae" is there -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com Test the interaction between Linux and your BIOS via http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/