Now, that we have launched Raring, it's time to start thinking about the future of the Ubuntu family.
One thing that I hope we can achieve, is to make the next version able to cooperate with Pentium M, that has no pae flag, but still the ability to run i686-pae kernels of *ubuntu. I have verified that it works for me in an IBM Thinkpad T42 to use the fake-pae method for Pentium M CPUs by 7bit according to this link http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2113826 This is good, but it would be great if this feature could be included in *ubuntu, so that people can install a new version directly, and avoid installing 12.04, add the fake-pae and upgrade to newer versions. I'm prepared to use my Thinkpad for testing, but I don't know enough to find and change the code. Maybe I can even try to compile the crucial package(s), if someone can hold my hands until I get the tools installed to do it (compilers, makefiles, source code packages etc.) The fake-pae fix in the ubuntuforums thread is not for everyone, but I think it would be fairly easy to enter some logic to make a difference between the Pentium M CPUs, that support pae, and the other non-pae CPUs. I can make such logic statements, but I need help to find where to put them. By the way, I think most if not all of the computers without pae, that are useful for anything but 'retro playing', are laptops with Pentium M. And, I think the objective of this task is not to stuff those old computers with more than 2 GB of RAM to exploit the pae feature, but to be able to run a new *ubuntu version at all with the memory available, often around 1 GB. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/930447 Title: Unable to start Ubuntu 12.04 live CD with syslinux loader on Pentium M x86 Laptop due to bug in PAE kernel, initramfs or syslinux To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/930447/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
