Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (842 mails)

[Ken Schneider <suse-list3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stephan Kulow pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 22. Mai 2008 schrieb Felix Miata:
> > On 2008/05/22 15:29 (GMT+1000) Basil Chupin apparently typed:
> > > I don't know why
> > > suddenly 11B3 decided that I need the "-pae" kernel rather than the
> > > usual "-default" as in past SuSEs/openSUSEs.)
> > Basil, I don't know why either, but I did 3 11.0b3 installs in recent days,
> > and all of them got the pae instead, even though all were 32 bit installs
> > and had 1G or less of installed RAM. At least I was able to boot those pae
>
> Yeah, we're thinking about renaming kernel-default to 
> kernel-usually-works-on-most-hardware and kernel-pae to 
> kernel-the-one-you-really-want to avoid this confusion in the future.
>
> Greetings, Stephan

Sounds more like the algorithm to select the proper kernel at install 
time is broken not kernel-default.

Since there was no previous announcement (at least that I recall) about 
the change in default install kernel there was no need to be sarcastic 
in your reply.

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Ken Schneider
SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998
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