Non-PAE kernel in 12.10

[Liam Proven]

On 20 November 2012 12:30, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> 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?
>
> If not, I am perfectly able to compile my own - but how to
> install/upgrade the rest of the OS?

Don't know if anyone remembers this, but I did it last night.

The key is that the PAE kernel boots & runs just fine on non-PAE
processors *if* the CPU reports that it can do PAE. So someone's
devised a tiny little tool that lies and puts the string "pae" into
/proc/cpuinfo so that the PAE kernels believe your Pentium-M is
compliant.

Bingo, 12.10 installs and runs just fine.

https://launchpad.net/~prof7bit/+archive/fake-pae


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