Thinkpad X40 doesn't support PAE, so unable to install 12.04

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄]

I was at a LUG meeting with a friend who has a 1.6GHz Pentium M class Thinkpad X40 laptop. I downloaded the i386 daily live CD today and booted from it on a USB stick. Unfortunately we were hit by bug 897786 which means 12.04 only supports PAE-enabled kernels.

Could we please enable some method for my friend (and others like him) to install Ubuntu 12.04 LTS non-PAE kernel on these devices?

I do not have direct access to the device but will suggest my friend subscribes to this bug and provides whatever information is required.

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

This bug is missing log files that will aid in diagnosing the problem. From a terminal window please run:

apport-collect 930778

and then change the status of the bug to 'Confirmed'.

If, due to the nature of the issue you have encountered, you are unable to run this command, please add a comment stating that fact and change the bug status to 'Confirmed'.

This change has been made by an automated script, maintained by the Ubuntu Kernel Team.

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey)]

Setting to cofirmed because due to the nature of this bug it's not possible / easy to gather this information. (can't boot Ubuntu)

[Anthony R C (arc-s)]

Thanks popey for opening this bug report on my behalf. There are workarounds and user experience reports with them on the main report for this bug:

This bug report is a duplicate of bug #930447, where
Joseph Salisbury (jsalisbury) wrote on 2012-02-13: #30
An upgrade path from prior releases is the only supported option at this time.
status: Confirmed → Won't Fix

Erick Brunzell (lbsolost) wrote on 2012-02-13: #31
Adding just a bit to what Joseph Salisbury said, another option is the non-pae mini.iso