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.