Comment 4 for bug 227869

Adding my voice to this bug. It's rather a pain for a project I'm working on, which uses Hardy server on low powered server boxes with VIA Nehemiah CPUs. Installation completes, but boot fails with a message like this:

Starting up...
This kernel requires the following features not present on the CPU:
0:6 0:8
Unable to boot -please use a kernel appropriate for your CPU.

That's not a very helpful message, nor is it particularly pleasant to have to mount a freshly installed partition in recovery mode and manually replace the kernel and related packages.

It's great that Ubuntu can take advantage of the latest greatest hardware, but let's not forget that low powered machines continue to be valuable and in widespread use, especially where energy consumption matters.

For the record, Hardy server fails similarly when installing as a virtualbox guest, complaining only about feature "0:6".