Non-PAE kernel in 12.10

[NoOp]

On 11/20/2012 02:01 PM, Colin Law wrote:
> On 20 November 2012 21:55, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> On 11/20/2012 04:30 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
>>> I'd like to upgrade Lubuntu 12.04 on my old Thinkpad X31.
>>>
>>> It's a 1.6GHz Pentium M with 1GB of RAM, so not too slow.
>>>
>>> But the Pentium-M doesn't support PAE so the generic kernel in 12.10
>>> will not boot.
>>>
>>> Is there a non-PAE kernel available?
>>
>> http://packages.ubuntu.com/quantal/linux-generic
> 
> Are you sure that is not the pae version?  I think generic and
> generic-pae are the same in quantal

Apologies & you are correct (see my other posts). Found the 'deciding' memo:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2012-May/035176.html
> Quantal: End of the line for i386 non-PAE
> Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
> Wed May 2 14:57:10 UTC 2012
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> As decided by the Tech Board, 12.04 is the last release to have the i386
> non-PAE kernel flavour. So, how do we upgrade folks ? IIRC a non-PAE
> kernel was installed because 1) there was less then 4GB RAM, or 2) their
> CPU did not have PAE support.
> 
> The folks in case 2 are simply out of luck (and no longer supported).
> 
> I have removed the non-PAE kernel meta package from Quantal that would
> allow a non-PAE upgrade. Its likely that folks attempting an upgrade to
> Quantal will be left with a Precise kernel.
> 
> Any ideas on how we might allow PAE capable CPUs to upgrade? Is this the
> job of update-manager ? It seems likely that Debian must have
> encountered this issue before.
> 
> rtg
> -- 
> Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
> 

And according to a followup, an upgrade is supposed to stop if the
system can't use PAE:

> On 05/08/2012 08:13 AM, Phillip Susi wrote:
>> On 5/2/2012 10:57 AM, Tim Gardner wrote:
>>> Any ideas on how we might allow PAE capable CPUs to upgrade? Is this the
>>> job of update-manager ? It seems likely that Debian must have
>>> encountered this issue before.
>>
>> With a Replaces: line in the control file of the new kernel?
>>
>>
> 
> The suggestion offered yesterday in the kernel flavours session was to 
> add a pre-install hook in the meta package to determine if the CPU was 
> PAE capable, and to stop the upgrade if not.

@Liam: maybe try the non-pae kernel from the other links:

<http://askubuntu.com/questions/182048/will-it-be-possible-to-use-a-non-pae-kernel-in-12-10>
<https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~webtom/+junk/linux-image-i386-non-pae/files>
<https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~webtom/+junk/linux-image-i386-non-pae/view/head:/README>

Personally, I'd just stick with 12.04...