[CentOS] non PAE support

Marc Deop damnshock at gmail.com
Wed Jul 27 09:53:49 UTC 2011


On Tuesday 26 July 2011 20:55:58 John R Pierce wrote:
> On 07/26/11 4:27 PM, Kevin K wrote:
> > Does anyone know what I would have to modify in 6 if I wanted to run on an older Pentium M CPU without PAE?  Is it just the 
kernel that needs to be rebuilt (maybe while installed in a system with a supported CPU)?  Or are there other components that 
would cause problems and need to be rebuilt too?
> 
> generically, you'd install the kernel srpm, and modify its rpmbuild 
> scripts to change the HIGHMEM64G kernel configure option to HIGHMEM4G 
> ... I would also change the name of this kernel (I'd add -noPAE to it, I 
> think), and the builder name, then run rpmbuild.
> 
> specifically, I haven't done this in quite a long time, so would have to 
> figure out the details as I went along.
> 
> 

And how exactly would you do that if the installation just can't proceed if it detects you do not have a PAE processor?

Regards,

Marc Deop



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