Re: PAE broken on Thinkpad

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Sat Oct 21 2006 - 22:01:24 EST


Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 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)

It shouldn't have crashed in bootmem then, just paniced early.

-Andi
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