Hi Phill, Yes I want to be involved :-)
By the way, is your old ubuntu mail address working again? The email that I am replying to seems to be sent from it. Best regards Nio 2014-03-06 23:52, Phill Whiteside skrev: > Nio, > > indeed... from how I read it, the Celeron 'M's that can support pae but > do not advertise it will be automatically supported. I understand that > there are two early 'M' chips that cannot support pae at all. > > In the meantime, the work on the non-pae community respin of lubuntu > 14.04 alternate continues.... Both my self and bodhi are committed to > get this sorted so it is not only released on time, but has > documentation to ensure people can help keep it up dated for the 5 > years.... with the passing of fake-pae I hope you may want to get > involved. I've allocated a dedicated build machine solely for the > non-pae 14.04 lts. > > > Regards, > > Phill. > > > On 6 March 2014 22:46, Nio Wiklund <nio.wikl...@gmail.com > <mailto:nio.wikl...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > I think the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS flavours will work with Pentium M and > Celeron M CPUs :-) > > I wrote this comment in the bug report at Launchpad about the bug for > Pentium M and Celeron M CPUs with PAE capability but without PAE flag. > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/baltix/+bug/930447 > > Best regards > Nio > ----- > Now it is time for me to say thank you :-) > > First of all, *I want to thank everybody contributing* to solving this > bug, or complex of bugs, concerning Pentium M and Celeron M CPUs and new > Ubuntu based kernels. > > Then I want to mention roland aus köln (devzero-c), who continued > pushing this issue when we had given up (either completely or like me, > resorting to work-arounds). > > And I want to thank Chris Bainbridge, who was able to do the actual > bug-fixes that made the ship turn around. I don't know if you are a > developer or a very skilled user, but you made a great difference. > > Finally I want to thank you Chris for sharing the link to instructions, > that actually got me over the threshold to build a custom syslinux > bootable system. I'm working right now on a debian system, that should > be able to install from a CD/DVD or USB drive to very different systems > (including very old and limited systems) by flashing compressed image > files (img.xz files) or iso files and growing the file system when there > is extra space available. > > I show the link again for everybody else, who might be interested. It > works for me with a couple of minor tweaks, the main one that I needed > to import a gpg key separately. > > Best regards > sudodus alias Nio > > ----- Comment #279 ----- > Chris Bainbridge (chris-bainbridge) wrote on 2014-03-03: #279 > > lkml: "grub is jumping to the 32-bit entry point and skipping the entire > real mode setup code. Bad grub." > > You don't need to build a syslinux bootable iso. You can boot the kernel > from Grub in 16-bit mode by using the linux16 command > http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/linux16.html and > initrd16 > https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/initrd16.html > > According to the discussion on LKML, linux16 is now the default on > Fedora, and should be used by other distributions. > > (If you still want to build a custom syslinux bootable system, just for > fun, see the instructions at > http://willhaley.com/blog/create-a-custom-debian-live-environment/ - > it's about 25 lines of code in total, and not difficult to follow) > ----- > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa > <https://launchpad.net/%7Elubuntu-qa> > Post to : lubuntu...@lists.launchpad.net > <mailto:lubuntu...@lists.launchpad.net> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa > <https://launchpad.net/%7Elubuntu-qa> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > > -- > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-comms Post to : lubuntu-comms@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-comms More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
