Re: OS for Thinkpad T42??

For the t42 you need to tweak one kernel parameter.
T42-CPU does not support pae-extension.
Somewhere down the kernel-line they changed the default setting. From default to 'required', thus very old cpu's won't boot anymore, unless you drop this requirement.

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> On 18 Aug 2017, at 23:10, Patrick O'Callaghan  wrote:
> > On Fri, 2017-08-18 at 10:55 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> > Do you remember when Gates said we'd never need more than 64K of RAM?
>
> It was 640K, but yeah. Of course I ran a 12-user PDP-11/45 with 256K of
> RAM, but that was then.
>
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OS for Thinkpad T42??

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 08/19/2017 09:08 PM, [e-mail] wrote:
> For the t42 you need to tweak one kernel parameter.
> T42-CPU does not support pae-extension.
> Somewhere down the kernel-line they changed the default setting. From default to 'required', thus very old cpu's won't boot anymore, unless you drop this requirement.

This would be news to me.

Fedora ships pae (package name kernel-pae-*) and non-pae kernels 
(package name kernel-pae-*).

The pae kernels have the requirement you mention, the non-pae kernels 
should not have this requirement.

Ralf