Comment 157 for bug 930447

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Chris Bainbridge (chris-bainbridge) wrote :

Two possible workarounds:

* Use a non-PAE kernel - see "How to install Ubuntu 12.10 on non-PAE CPU" at http://www.webupd8.org/2012/11/how-to-install-ubuntu-1210-on-non-pae.html which explains how to modify the iso and links to .deb packages at http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~webtom/+junk/linux-image-i386-non-pae/files

* Use the PAE kernel with "fake-pae" - it adds pae to /proc/cpuflags so the check in the Ubuntu package will pass - see https://launchpad.net/~prof7bit/+archive/fake-pae and the associated discussion thread at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2113826 (this option works surprisingly well - it appears that the PAE kernel runs fine on Pentium M CPUs, which is surprising because the kernel config help states "If you say 64GB here, then the kernel will not boot on CPUs that don't support PAE!")