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  1. Bug #930447
  2. Comment #169

Comment 169 for bug 930447

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Stan Osborne (stan-ana) wrote : Re: [Bug 930447] Re: Unable to start Ubuntu 12.04 live CD with syslinux loader on Pentium M x86 Laptop due to bug in PAE kernel, initramfs or syslinux

Thanks for taking a year or so to let me know. I understand
you are overworked closing out trival bug reports. That you
are able to finaly respond, is impressive.

Soon after I discovered 12.04 stopped supporting PAE, I found
a build with non-PAE support. The 13 year old IBM laptop now
uses 12.04 just fine. The CPU may be unsupported, but automatic
update works fine. Thanks for continuing to support the un-
supported CPU.

Prior to 12.04, non-PAE CPU's were supported, so to me it makes
little sense to suddenly stop this support. It probably is taking
more effort to turn it off and deal with all the complaints, than
it would to leave in the non-PAE support. Or does Ubuntu help
hardware vendors force customers to upgrade CPUs?

FWIW, from talking with other Ubuntu users, they too would like
to see an error message when attempting to install a PAE only
distribution on a non-PAE machine.

Stan