On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn dennisml@conversis.de wrote:
On 12/05/2011 04:52 PM, Beartooth wrote:
I don't even know how to tell what kernel a prospective download has. I do know that some of my other PCs list kernels with and without "PAE" in the grub display.
PAE means physical address extension and allows 32bit cpus to make use of memory beyond the 4gb limit addressable with 32bit.
Centos/RHEL 6 doesn't support cpus without this as it's hard to come by a machine these days that doesn't have this extension.
FYI, the ELRepo project now provides kernel-ml for EL6 [1] that includes a non-PAE kernel [2] (thanks to Alan Bartlett). However, one has to create an install disk/image with that kernel to perform the installation.
Akemi
[1] http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-ml [2] http://elrepo.org/linux/kernel/el6/i386/RPMS/