Re: Problems with PAE kernel sort of solved.

2011-07-29 Thread Frank McCormick
On 29/07/11 02:38 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 7/29/2011 1:26 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: What I am going to do is compare the kernel config files of the last of the 2.6.38 and .39 series and the first kernels where PAE was eanbled to see what is the difference. Maybe some other change is aff

Re: Problems with PAE kernel sort of solved.

2011-07-29 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/29/2011 1:26 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: >What I am going to do is compare the kernel config files of the last > of the 2.6.38 and .39 series and the first kernels where PAE was eanbled > to see what is the difference. Maybe some other change is affecting me. > We'll see. I thought I alre

Re: Problems with PAE kernel sort of solved.

2011-07-29 Thread Frank McCormick
On 29/07/11 01:26 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:38:39 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: On 29/07/11 12:15 PM, Camaleón wrote: I have since discovered a couple of other people who have the same problem...all on machines using older (circa 2002) Intel boards and cpu's. (...) Th

Re: Problems with PAE kernel sort of solved.

2011-07-29 Thread Frank McCormick
On 29/07/11 12:57 PM, Dejan Ribič wrote: Dne 29.7.2011 18:41, piše Frank McCormick: (...) No particular reason, it's just that the kernel developers decided at one point to start using PAE which is now the only kernel available in the 3.0 series. However I can still and do boot 2.6.38 which doe

Re: Problems with PAE kernel sort of solved.

2011-07-29 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:38:39 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > On 29/07/11 12:15 PM, Camaleón wrote: >>> >>> I have since discovered a couple of other people who have the same >>> problem...all on machines using older (circa 2002) Intel boards and >>> cpu's. >> >> (...) >> >> Then you better dis

Re: Problems with PAE kernel sort of solved.

2011-07-29 Thread Dejan Ribič
Dne 29.7.2011 18:41, piše Frank McCormick: (...) No particular reason, it's just that the kernel developers decided at one point to start using PAE which is now the only kernel available in the 3.0 series. However I can still and do boot 2.6.38 which does not have PAE turned on. Hi,

Re: Problems with PAE kernel sort of solved.

2011-07-29 Thread Frank McCormick
On 29/07/11 12:22 PM, Dejan Ribič wrote: Been there..done that :) The BIOS is the latest available, and Intel naturally has dropped support for this MB. My interim solution has been to boot the 2.6.38 kernels in Sid, and/or Ubuntu Maverick and Natty on the other partitions. Hi, I wasn't paying

Re: Problems with PAE kernel sort of solved.

2011-07-29 Thread Frank McCormick
On 29/07/11 12:15 PM, Camaleón wrote: I have since discovered a couple of other people who have the same problem...all on machines using older (circa 2002) Intel boards and cpu's. (...) Then you better disable HT and use a "non-pae" kernel until someone can provide more data on why/how th

Re: Problems with PAE kernel sort of solved.

2011-07-29 Thread Dejan Ribič
Dne 29.7.2011 17:02, piše Frank McCormick: On 29/07/11 10:14 AM, Camaleón wrote: Yes, that I guess is why the system now "sees" only one CPU when I have a dual core. But I still fail to understand why turning off hyper-threading allows the kernel (supposedly who only major change is use of

Re: Problems with PAE kernel sort of solved.

2011-07-29 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:02:52 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > On 29/07/11 10:14 AM, Camaleón wrote: > >>> Yes, that I guess is why the system now "sees" only one CPU when I >>> have a dual core. But I still fail to understand why turning off >>> hyper-threading allows the kernel (supposedly wh

Re: Problems with PAE kernel sort of solved.

2011-07-29 Thread Frank McCormick
On 29/07/11 10:14 AM, Camaleón wrote: Yes, that I guess is why the system now "sees" only one CPU when I have a dual core. But I still fail to understand why turning off hyper-threading allows the kernel (supposedly who only major change is use of the PAE extension) to boot when it wouldn't

Re: Problems with PAE kernel sort of solved.

2011-07-29 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:10:37 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > On 25/07/11 01:41 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:17:55 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: >> >>> I have been having problems with the new series of PAE kernels. I >>> could never get them to boot on my machine (see bug #632734)

Re: Problems with PAE kernel sort of solved.

2011-07-26 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/26/2011 9:15 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: >Never assume :) So, if you were me, which options would you include > or drop...I don't need PAE (one gig of memory in this machine) and I now > know it's not a multi-core, so CONFIG_X86_SMP is the only one needed ?? > I have compiled kernels befor

Re: Problems with PAE kernel sort of solved.

2011-07-26 Thread Frank McCormick
On 26/07/11 04:49 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: I don't believe CONFIG_X86_PAE is the cause of Frank's problem. I believe it lies in two or more other config options. It just happens that he's using a pre-compiled canned Debian kernel that seems to have other features turned on that are causing hi

Re: Problems with PAE kernel sort of solved.

2011-07-26 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/25/2011 11:19 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Frank McCormick wrote: >> Bob Proulx wrote: >>> You early adopter you. I haven't rebooted my machine to the new >>> kernel today yet. :-) > > And since then I have rebooted. All good here. :-) But not a PAE > kernel here since I am using 64-bits. I

Re: Problems with PAE kernel sort of solved.

2011-07-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Frank McCormick wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > >You early adopter you. I haven't rebooted my machine to the new > >kernel today yet. :-) And since then I have rebooted. All good here. :-) But not a PAE kernel here since I am using 64-bits. > >I assume that you could select the previous kernel

Re: Problems with PAE kernel sort of solved.

2011-07-25 Thread Frank McCormick
On 25/07/11 04:47 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Frank McCormick wrote: Camaleón wrote: Frank McCormick wrote: I have been having problems with the new series of PAE kernels. I could never get them to boot on my machine (see bug #632734) . You early adopter you. I haven't rebooted my machine to the

Re: Problems with PAE kernel sort of solved.

2011-07-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Frank McCormick wrote: > Camaleón wrote: > > Frank McCormick wrote: > > > >>I have been having problems with the new series of PAE kernels. I could > >>never get them to boot on my machine (see bug #632734) . You early adopter you. I haven't rebooted my machine to the new kernel today yet. :-)

Re: Problems with PAE kernel sort of solved.

2011-07-25 Thread Frank McCormick
On 25/07/11 01:41 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:17:55 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: I have been having problems with the new series of PAE kernels. I could never get them to boot on my machine (see bug #632734) . What an ugly (hard to debug) bug ;-( This morning I installed the

Re: Problems with PAE kernel sort of solved.

2011-07-25 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:17:55 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > I have been having problems with the new series of PAE kernels. I could > never get them to boot on my machine (see bug #632734) . What an ugly (hard to debug) bug ;-( > This morning I installed the "new" 3.0.0 kernel, and spent a hal