On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 11:32:38AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > >From: M A Young <m.a.young@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > >Sent: Nov 7, 2006 10:43 AM > >To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > >Subject: Re: why did FC6 install a XEN kernel on my inspiron? > > > >On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Tony Molloy wrote: > > > >> That's what I found. If you select virtulization during the install it > >> only seems to installl the Xen kernel. Don't know if that's a bug or a > >> feature ;-) > > > >It is probably a feature. If you are going to run xen subsystems, the base > >domain needs to be running xen as well (or more precisely a 0-domain on > >top of a xen hypervisor). > > however, as an early respondent to this thread e-mailed me off list, > it might not hurt if anaconda displayed a warning if you select > virtualization on a non-PAE CPU system. i think i'll "RFE" this to > bugzilla if anyone thinks it's worth it. On a PAE-less system, it shouldn't even offer the choice of installing it. It has all the info available to know it isn't going to work. I'm puzzled why it _only_ installed a xen kernel. We had that happen before, and backtracked as it turned out to be 'not a good idea'(tm). Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
