[Nix-dev] PAE still a problem for install to laptop (hardware, not virtualbox)

Michael Raskin 7c6f434c at mail.ru
Thu Sep 30 09:19:58 CEST 2010


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On 09/30/2010 09:33 AM, Roderick Ford wrote:
> At first I thought the problem was that I did a `mke2fs -t ext4` on my
> drives before install, since I got the message "This kernel requires the
> following features not present on the CPU: pae     Unable to boot -
> please use a kernel appropriate for your CPU."
> So, I reran a plain old `mke2fs` on the partitions and did the install
> again, but the same problem occurs.

Try linux_2_6_35_oldI686 as your kernel. You can look how it is defined
in all-packages.nix, too.
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