linux-kernel - Re: PAE broken on Thinkpad

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Date:	Sun, 22 Oct 2006 03:52:44 +0200
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Dave Hansen <haveblue@...ibm.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PAE broken on Thinkpad

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)

check /proc/cpuinfo the flags line to see if "pae" is there


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