[Lubuntu-qa] Ubuntu 14.04 LTS flavours will work with Pentium M and Celeron M

[Phill Whiteside]

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.wiklund at 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)
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