Alternate-CD: InitRD Kernel needs PAE to run - thus installation impossible

[Emm Tee]

When trying to install 10.04 LTS via alternate installer (supposed to use lower kernel requirements) then just after the bootmenu the Installation aborts with a message saying that pae is required.

Please either add a note to the download-page or please simply fix that by using a kernel that's compiled without the PAE requirement - both for installation ramdisk and later selected by the alternate installer.

Used-ISO: ubuntu-12.04-alternate-i386.iso (Initial LTS release from April 26)

Hardware: Samsung P30 Laptop (Built 2004) - Pentium Mobile CPU (does not support "pae") - but worked for older Ubuntu release

CPUINFO:
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root@p30:/proc# cat cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 9
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1400MHz
stepping : 5
cpu MHz : 600.000
cache size : 1024 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 tm pbe up bts est tm2
bogomips : 1196.11
clflush size : 64
power management:
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[Emm Tee (emmtee)]

Sorry for an error in the text: It's not 10.04 but 12.04 as named in the ISO.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#When%20not%20to%20file%20a%20bug. There is also a vibrant support community available at http://askubuntu.com and you might consider asking your question there.

[roland aus köln (devzero-c)]

Pentium Mobile supports PAE, it just don`t report about it correctly