I am trying to run unRaid on a laptop (Compaq NC6000).

I want to test installing sabnzb, vmware... on a non production machine.

It is the only free pc right now.

The problem I get, after unraid starts to load bzroot is"The kernal requires the following features not present on the cpu: PAE

Unable to boot - Please use a kernal appropriate for your cpu.

 

Any ideas?

According to the Release Notes, PAE was added in v4.4, so you will need to drop back to a version prior to that, to find one that works with that laptop's CPU.  The Downloads page lists v4.3.3.

 

I suspect that won't be a good machine for testing virtual machine stuff.

According to the Release Notes, PAE was added in v4.4, so you will need to drop back to a version prior to that, to find one that works with that laptop's CPU.  The Downloads page lists v4.3.3.

 

I suspect that won't be a good machine for testing virtual machine stuff.

 

That is what I feared...

Oh well...

 

I even tried VMWare and MS virtual PC but neither one of them boots from USB. Silly in today's age, with all these forensics tools on usb.

Not sure if qemu or colinux can boot vm from usb....

 

Any news on 4.5 Beata5?

PAE is not required to run unRAID, you can build a new kernel and image without PAE if you want to run on the older hardware.

 

Never thought this would have been an issue.

I wonder if my Celeron M machine is going to have issues when I upgrade it. 

 

Do you have the link to rebuild the kernal without the pae?

Of course, I could just find a faster newer amchine to dev on...

Check the How-To's page, Building a custom kernel.  The links at the bottom of that page are fairly complete, include I believe every discussion of it and related topics.

 

Guys in step 7: I am getting an error: after running make modules. Any hints?

 

7.  Compile the kernel:

Code:

 

make bzImage

cp arch/x86/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.29.1-unRAID

cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.6.29.1-unRAID

make modules

 

  CC [M]  drivers/ide/siimage.o

  CC [M]  drivers/ide/sis5513.o

  CC [M]  drivers/ide/via82cxxx.o

  CC [M]  drivers/ide/ide-generic.o

  LD [M]  drivers/ide/ide-gd_mod.o

  CC [M]  drivers/md/md.o

drivers/md/md.c: In function 'read_file':

drivers/md/md.c:193: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'fsuid'

drivers/md/md.c:194: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'fsgid'

drivers/md/md.c:195: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'fsuid'

drivers/md/md.c:195: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'fsgid'

drivers/md/md.c:227: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'fsuid'

drivers/md/md.c:228: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'fsgid'

drivers/md/md.c: In function 'write_file':

drivers/md/md.c:246: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'fsuid'

drivers/md/md.c:247: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'fsgid'

drivers/md/md.c:248: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'fsuid'

drivers/md/md.c:248: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'fsgid'

drivers/md/md.c:281: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'fsuid'

drivers/md/md.c:282: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'fsgid'

make[2]: *** [drivers/md/md.o] Error 1

make[1]: *** [drivers/md] Error 2

make: *** [drivers] Error 2

 

BTW, I was not able to disable PAE in the Slackware 12.2 install. The option was there, but you could not disable it.