Non-PAE kernel in 12.10

[Liam Proven]

On 24 February 2013 21:01, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 11:07 PM, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
>>
>> 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."
>
> There was a thread on the Ubuntu developer or kernel list about
> removing the non-pae kernel from 12.04 before its release.

I am on the dev list, or I thought I was. I saw nothing about this,
but it was very very low-traffic for a long time, then died
completely. (I may have resigned & forgotten.)

> I thought
> that its conclusion was that the non-pae kernel would be available
> from the universe repo. According to Google, the only non-pae
> installation iso is the mini.iso.

This is AIUI, yes.

It is an obscure and hard-to-find option in 12.04 and gone completely in 12.10.

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