On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Eric Shubert
<ejs@shubes.net> wrote:
On 06/07/2012 01:29 PM, Jim March wrote:
if you install 32bit Ubunu Precise (or likely it's
derivatives like Mint 12) it will auto-detect 4gig and install a PAE
32bit kernel.
Ubuntu 12.4 (aka Precise) doesn't appear to me to do any auto-detecting. I think that Ubuntu 12.4 installs PAE regardless of the amount of RAM. That's what it did when I upgraded one host from 11.4 (Natty) w/ 2G. Only PAE kernels in my /boot now, where 11.4 had both PAE and non-PAE kernels.
Oddly though, my Mythbuntu 12.4 (upgraded from 11.10) backend w/ 512M ram has only the non-PAE kernels. Looks as though at least one downstream distro isn't consistent in this regard.
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