LiveCD install and PAE kernel

Kyle McMartin kyle at mcmartin.ca
Wed May 20 23:13:13 UTC 2009


On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:57:52PM +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I installed the i686 from the Preview Release LiveCD image
> (specifically F11-Preview-i686-Live-KDE.iso). This image booted the
> non PAE kernel, and when I installed to hard disk, it installs the non
> PAE kernel. This is on an Atom N280 netbook. If I understand the
> feature list correctly, actually the installer should have installed
> the PAE kernel on this hardware. Or does that just refer to DVD
> installs? i.e. does the LiveCD have any mechanism for chosing
> PAE/non-PAE or is that just the DVD?
> 
> If not, then it might be worth detailing in the Release Notes how to
> install the PAE kernel following a LiveCD install.
> 

The LiveCD is always an i586 kernel, and always installs the one from
the cd.

regards, Kyle




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