It drive me mad…
March 3rd, 2007Recently I bought a two-hand T41 with Pentium-M 1.6G. Today I am trying to install xen on my debian (etch). But I am failed by following the regular step on debianwiki, for the reason that pentium-m didn’t support PAE which used to manage >4G memories. I think I don’t have so many memories, so I want to install a xen without pae (and I noticed that it’s curious apt installed package with pae by default), which is package “xen-hypervisor-3.0.3-1-i386″. And kernel package is “linux-image-2.6.18-4-xen-686 “. But I still failed after reboot. It reports that “PAE mode mismatch between Xen and DOM0 (xen=no, dom0=yes)” and reboot in 5 seconds. I tried to find out another kernel package with xen patched and non-PAE support, but found there is no such kind of thing…
Finally I found a bug report for Debian Kernel Team: another Pentium-M user complain about can’t install kernel package with xen. But the bug was tagged “won’t fix”… And the developer said that the xen patch was unstable when using with a non-pae support machine, and it was only appear in some of Pentium-M cores.
God….
UPDATE: I have installed xen from source successful, and everything goes well.
