PAE error on boot
If you found this page through Google, it would be stupid to follow these instructions to the letter This kernel requires the following features not present on the CPU: pae Unable to boot - please use a kernel appropriate for your CPU. Step 1: Chroot mount /dev/sda2 /mnt for i in dev proc sys; do mount --bind /$i /mnt/$i; done chroot /mnt Step 2: Make initrd cd /boot mkinitrd -c -k 3.2.45 -m ext2 -f ext2 -r /dev/sda2 Step 3: Add to lilo echo >>/etc/lilo.conf <<EOF # Linux bootable partition config begins image = /boot/vmlinuz-generic-3.2.45 initrd = /boot/initrd.gz root = /dev/sda2 label = Slacky-3.2.45-initrd read-only # Linux bootable partition config ends EOF Step 4: Update lilo and reboot lilo exit umount /mnt/{dev,proc,sys,} reboot