Which kernel to use in opensuse 11 ?

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#1

I just installed opensuse 11 and in the bootloader I now have two kernel boot options, default and pae.

I can boot each one of them without issues, but I don’t know what the advantage is of using default and pae.

Can somebody explain me why I should use pae or not knowing that my laptop is a core2duo T7400 with 2GB of RAM.

Thanks.

#2

The default kernel of openSUSE 11.0 that should be installed pae kernel.

#3

The pae kernel supports pcs with more than 4 gigs of ram

#4

They are the same thing, as you can see from the entries in menu.lst:

title openSUSE 11.0
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.25.5-1.1-pae root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_Maxtor_6L160P0_L30VFB7H-part2 resume=/dev/sda7 splash=silent showopts vga=0x31a
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.25.5-1.1-pae

title Kernel-2.6.25.5-1.1-pae
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.25.5-1.1-pae root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_Maxtor_6L160P0_L30VFB7H-part2 resume=/dev/sda7 splash=silent showopts vga=0x31a
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.25.5-1.1-pae

The two entries differ only in the “title” line. I don’t know why the devs have created duplicate entries – interesting