Re: [PATCH] x86: set Pentium M as PAE capable

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Sun Mar 02 2014 - 19:12:24 EST


On 02/26/2014 09:57 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 02/26/2014 09:10 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 08:45:41AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>
>>> Yes. Grub can be made to behave sanely by using "linux16" and
>>> "initrd16", but of course none of the distros do it that way.
>>
>> Fedora does as of F20, but yeah, point taken.
>>
>
> Oh, good to hear.
>

Hmm... this doesn't seem to actually be the case. I recently did a F20
install on a clean system, and it still uses linux/initrd. So unless
you changed the meaning of linux/initrd inside of Grub2, it is still
doing the pointless bypass.

-hpa


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