Comment 307 for bug 930447

Sorry for the confusion,

*I asked*

> I have a couple of questions about your Sony Vaio with Pentium M:
>
> What happens when you try to boot a PAE kernel with forcepae? Do you get
> an error message? Black screen?
>
> Are you sure it is not 'only' a problem with some other hardware, for
> example graphics or wifi? You could try to boot with the boot option
> 'text' and switch off the wifi if possible.

*The owner replied*

> Most of my 'nonpae' observations have come inside VirtualBox where I
> noticed the 'pae/nx' checkbox is greyed out and every distro. I try that
> is pae only, informs me that I have a cpu that doesn't support the pae
> option. Trying 'forcepae' using a recent kernel eventually ended with a
> blank black screen.
>
> I tried to use a Gparted live CD recently and that gave me a similar
> message when it attempted to boot.
>
> Yesterday I squeezed some unused space out of my HDD using Gparted and
> created an empty new extra linux partition (about 9 GiB) and I'll try a
> 'real metal' install of a pae kernel sometime later today.

*I replied*

> You can test that it is not problems with the graphics chip using the
> boot options 'forcepae text' in a 'standard Lubuntu 14.04 LTS installer'.

*And the owner solved the problem*

You were quite correct to keep asking questions.

Using the 'forcepae' parameter I have now successfully installed Lubuntu 14.04 on 'baremetal'.

I'm happy with that as you can imagine. There are many ways that I tried before that failed but
obviously there is nothing that replaces a 'baremetal' install. My first clue that it may work was
when I used 'forcepae' to boot from the LiveCD that I made and that worked.

Apologies for causing you extra work and innocently misleading your research. All's well that
ends well, as the saying goes.