Bug 851454

Summary:	/distribution/kernelinstall installs non-PAE kernel on machine with >4G RAM
Product:	[Retired] Beaker	Reporter:	Guangze Bai <gbai>
Component:	tests	Assignee:	Bill Peck <bpeck>
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Version:	0.9	CC:	bpeck, dcallagh, kbaker, rmancy, yshao
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Description Guangze Bai 2012-08-24 08:43:42 UTC

Description of problem:

This is found from https://beaker.engineering.redhat.com/recipes/605021
<task name="/distribution/kernelinstall" role="STANDALONE">
    <params>
	<param name="KERNELARGNAME" value="kernel"/>
	<param name="KERNELARGVERSION" value="2.6.18-338.el5"/>
	<param name="KERNELARGVARIANT" value="up"/>
    </params>
</task>

IIRC, "up" can determine PAE or not automatically. This recipe initially installed a PAE kernel since the box has more than 4G RAM, but kernelinstall testcase installed a non-PAE kernel.

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Expected results:
Determine accordingly:
<4G, install non-PAE kernel
>4G, install PAE kernel

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Comment 1 Guangze Bai 2012-09-07 05:31:27 UTC

oh, 'up' is supposed to mean non-PAE kernel while 'PAE' is PAE kernel. I don't know much about the history. Sorry for the noise.

Close NOTABUG.