Bug 202139

Summary:	Failure to boot on non-PAE hardware
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Adam Huffman <bloch>
Component:	kernel-xen	Assignee:	Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version:	6	CC:	bstein, madko
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Description Adam Huffman 2006-08-10 23:56:41 UTC

Description of problem:
The kernel installed on a Vaio S1XP laptop does not boot, because the CPU has no
PAE support.  Perhaps anaconda should check whether the CPU has this support
before offering Xen as an option?  After I saw the message I vaguely remembered
a discussion of this on one of the mailing lists, but couldn't remember how it
was resolved.

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How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot laptop
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
Kernel panics with a message about not being able to boot a PAE kernel on a
non-PAE CPU.

Expected results:
Kernel boots

Additional info:

The CPU is a Pentium M 1.7GHz

I have filed the bug against kernel-xen for the moment, though as I indicated
earlier, either this problem should be alluded to in the release notes (which
were blank) or anaconda should refuse to install Xen on such hardware.

Comment 1 Brian Stein 2006-08-11 14:26:03 UTC

*** Bug 202187 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2006-09-25 21:01:08 UTC

anaconda doesn't allow you to install Xen on pae-less hardware now