Re: Running pae kernel on non-pae system

2013-03-19 Thread Rob McMurray
Andrei POPESCU andreimpopescu at gmail.com writes: On Ma, 26 feb 13, 09:03:55, Tixy wrote: Unfortunately, the top hits for me when searching for pentium m pae in Google is Wikipedia, which is at best misleading if not wrong. It's a wiki :p (SCNR) Kind regards, Andrei Hi, I

Re: Running pae kernel on non-pae system

2013-03-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Rob McMurray wrote: I want to run ownCloud on a small server using a mini-itx motherboard. Unfortunately the CPU, a 1GHz VIA C3 Eden Nehemiah, doesn't support pae so I haven't yet found anything current that supports it. CentOS 5.9 works but not the latest 6.x version and SolusOS non-pae

Re: Running pae kernel on non-pae system

2013-02-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 26 feb 13, 09:03:55, Tixy wrote: Unfortunately, the top hits for me when searching for pentium m pae in Google is Wikipedia, which is at best misleading if not wrong. It's a wiki :p (SCNR) Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among

Re: Running pae kernel on non-pae system

2013-02-26 Thread Tixy
On Mon, 2013-02-25 at 22:26 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 2/24/2013 7:41 AM, Tixy wrote: Actually, I just double checked, and my CPU [1] does have PAE after all. PAE is in every AMD/Intel chip manufactured post 1998. You'd have to be using a Pentium MMX, AMD K6-2, or older chip, to lack

Re: Running pae kernel on non-pae system

2013-02-25 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 24 Feb 2013, Tixy wrote: Actually, I just double checked, and my CPU [1] does have PAE after all. I was confused because it only has 32-bit physical address size (and so doesn't benefit from any 'Extension' to the physical address). The Pentium-M does indeed have PAE, and they even

Re: Running pae kernel on non-pae system

2013-02-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 2/24/2013 7:41 AM, Tixy wrote: Actually, I just double checked, and my CPU [1] does have PAE after all. PAE is in every AMD/Intel chip manufactured post 1998. You'd have to be using a Pentium MMX, AMD K6-2, or older chip, to lack PAE support. The general rule here: if the chip clock is

Re: Running pae kernel on non-pae system

2013-02-24 Thread Tixy
On Sat, 2013-02-23 at 13:36 -0500, deb...@paulscrap.com wrote: Hi Folks, Last night I updated an older laptop of mine from Squeeze to Wheezy. It went fine, but I did run into an odd particularity. This system (Dell D505) has a Pentium M processor. My understanding is that the

Re: Running pae kernel on non-pae system

2013-02-24 Thread Tixy
On Sun, 2013-02-24 at 13:00 +, Tixy wrote: On Sat, 2013-02-23 at 13:36 -0500, deb...@paulscrap.com wrote: Hi Folks, Last night I updated an older laptop of mine from Squeeze to Wheezy. It went fine, but I did run into an odd particularity. This system (Dell D505) has a

Running pae kernel on non-pae system

2013-02-23 Thread deb...@paulscrap.com
Hi Folks, Last night I updated an older laptop of mine from Squeeze to Wheezy. It went fine, but I did run into an odd particularity. This system (Dell D505) has a Pentium M processor. My understanding is that the Pentium M's are just about the only modern(ish) processor without

Re: Running pae kernel on non-pae system

2013-02-23 Thread Dom
On 23/02/13 18:36, deb...@paulscrap.com wrote: Hi Folks, Last night I updated an older laptop of mine from Squeeze to Wheezy. It went fine, but I did run into an odd particularity. This system (Dell D505) has a Pentium M processor. My understanding is that the Pentium M's are

Re: Running pae kernel on non-pae system

2013-02-23 Thread deb...@paulscrap.com
On 02/23/2013 02:15 PM, Dom wrote: On 23/02/13 18:36, deb...@paulscrap.com wrote: I think the pae bit will only be used by CPUs that support it, otherwise it will be ignored and run normally. Only some really old CPUs (like some others I do run) won't be supported. See, that's

Re: Running pae kernel on non-pae system

2013-02-23 Thread David Baron
As previously posted, I am definitely running a PAE kernel on a system which does not benefit from it. Boots no problem. The CPU probably does support it. The BIOS, however, does not.