04-06-2015, 09:36 PM
I am following this thread with interest, as I'd like to run Linux Lite on my old Dell 8600 laptop which has a Pentium M 1500MHz non-PAE CPU (and only 512 MB of RAM).
I, too, saw the guidance on the Linux Mint site about adding the "forcepae" arguments when booting up. I have tried that successfully for Live sessions of both Mint 17 and Linux Lite 2.2. Both run fairly well on that laptop.
The aspect that still puzzles me as a non-techie newbie is when, how, and how often the "forcepae" process needs to be done.
Obviously the relevant text can be typed in on the boot menu screen in order to launch a Live session. I now know I can do this for both Mint 17 and Linux Lite. But that is by definition a temporary exercise. So.....
if one then installs on a non-PAE system, when and how does it need to be "forced" again?
The guidance given on the Ubuntu documentation site here suggests that "The "forcepae" option must be entered twice, before and after the delimiter "-- ", so that it is applied to both the kernel on the ISO and the kernel on the system after installation" (my underlining) .
I take that as saying that is all one needs to do, and the installed OS will then run happily thereafter.
But I have seen it suggested in forums elsewhere that once installed on a non-PAE system, Mint 17 ....or Linux Lite.... either has to be "forced" by adding that instruction each time one boots up, or the grub file has to be edited and updated in order to make the "forcing" permanent.
Can anyone who understands this better than me explain the apparent contradiction? Does the linked guidance from Ubuntu in fact mean that the forcepae only applies, and lasts, for the initial installed session?
And - follow up question - if in fact the grub file has to be edited to make the forcepae permanent, exactly what needs to be done and how?
I, too, saw the guidance on the Linux Mint site about adding the "forcepae" arguments when booting up. I have tried that successfully for Live sessions of both Mint 17 and Linux Lite 2.2. Both run fairly well on that laptop.
The aspect that still puzzles me as a non-techie newbie is when, how, and how often the "forcepae" process needs to be done.
Obviously the relevant text can be typed in on the boot menu screen in order to launch a Live session. I now know I can do this for both Mint 17 and Linux Lite. But that is by definition a temporary exercise. So.....
if one then installs on a non-PAE system, when and how does it need to be "forced" again?
The guidance given on the Ubuntu documentation site here suggests that "The "forcepae" option must be entered twice, before and after the delimiter "-- ", so that it is applied to both the kernel on the ISO and the kernel on the system after installation" (my underlining) .
I take that as saying that is all one needs to do, and the installed OS will then run happily thereafter.
But I have seen it suggested in forums elsewhere that once installed on a non-PAE system, Mint 17 ....or Linux Lite.... either has to be "forced" by adding that instruction each time one boots up, or the grub file has to be edited and updated in order to make the "forcing" permanent.
Can anyone who understands this better than me explain the apparent contradiction? Does the linked guidance from Ubuntu in fact mean that the forcepae only applies, and lasts, for the initial installed session?
And - follow up question - if in fact the grub file has to be edited to make the forcepae permanent, exactly what needs to be done and how?