Non-PAE kernel in 12.10

[Karl Auer]

On Sat, 2013-02-23 at 18:51 +0000, Liam Proven wrote:
> 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.

I'm confused - on my old Thinkpad T41, the install version will not
boot, let alone install, 12.04. 12.04 was allegedly the last version to
have non-PAE kernels. All I get when booting the distro (CD or USB
stick) is "This kernel requires the following features not present on
the CPU: Unable to boot - please use a kernel appropriate for your CPU."

So how does this fake-pae tool help in my case? All I can imagine doing
is installing an old version of Ubuntu and upgrading the kernel, which
is not all I want to upgrade.

I would really like to be able to put Ubuntu on all this old hardware,
which is by no means dead yet. T41p, T42, R50, T30 - all still going
strong...

Regards, K.

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