Non-PAE kernel in 12.10

[Karl Auer]

On Sun, 2013-02-24 at 16:42 +0000, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 24 February 2013 04:07, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
> "This kernel requires the following features not present on
> > the CPU: Unable to boot - please use a kernel appropriate for your CPU."
> Are you missing a word there? It does not specify what feature is missing.

Er possibly. If so, the word was "PAE" :-)

> However, the documented method for 12.04 with non-PAE chips is as follows:

Thank you for that recipe - very useful (and to others, I'm sure).

> > 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...

I've chucked teh T21 (just too woefully slow with 11.04, which did
install) and the T42 (which, it turned out, was, in fact, dead). Leaves
an R50 which took an age to install, but is now working acceptably fast
with 11.04, and a T41p, which still seems OK and will boot 11.04.

> I may try a different desktop, or indeed, whole distro.

Me too. The last Ubuntu that was stable and good was 10.04-1. Every
version since then has taken one or more steps backward (admittedly
often with steps forward as well), and has become less reliable. I am
now boot 12.04 every couple of days - 10.04-1 was rock solid. It is
almost certainly a gnome3/gnome-shell problem, but I would not have to
run GNOME3 if Ubuntu properly supported a reasonable desktop (Unity is
not reasonable).

> 11.10 worked but lost the ability to drive a 2nd monitor.

Yep - used to work, now does, but broken.

> TBH I am considering going back to 10.04!

I run IPv6 training courses, and I still use 10.04 for those. It has all
the features I need, and none of the "features" I don't.

Regards, K.

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