On 7 April 2013 22:17, Alan Bartlett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On 7 April 2013 21:33, Akemi Yagi <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Alan Bartlett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> It has just occurred to me that I have a sufficiently antique 32-bit
>>> nonPAE system upon which I could perform a test-boot, if Akemi does
>>> not have anything available.
>>>
>>> Alan.
>>
>> No luck. I could not find any that has a non-PAE processor. And I
>> think it is important to test the nonPAE Live media before it can be
>> released.
>>
>> Akemi
>
> I am currently downloading the ISO image and will be able to test it tomorrow.
>
> Alan.

Unfortunately I am unable to give a positive report.

Using my Dell OptiPlex GX1 (Intel PIII, 450 MHz, uniprocessor system
with 768 Mbytes of main RAM and 8 Mbyte of video RAM) the NONPAE
LiveCD boots but eventually throws a kernel panic. (Caps Lock & Scroll
Lock LED flashing for all they are worth.) I have taken a few
photographs of the system console showing the messages visible and
would be willing to forward them for analysis.

Although my experiment ended in failure, I am not convinced that the
ISO image is to blame. Being a uniprocessor system, I have to tell the
normal kernel that I boot (for EL5 usage) not to expand itself up into
SMP mode. What I am trying to say is that my non-PAE 32-bit system
could be too antique . . . To run EL5 upon it, I cannot use the
distributed kernel-2.6.18-blah.el5 package but have to use a very
early variant of one of the ELRepo kernel packages.

Is there anyone else with a 32-bit non-PAE system who could test the
image, please?

Alan.