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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2013-04-28 21:26, Erick Brunzell wrote:
> On 04/28/2013 10:25 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
>> Hi Lance,
>>
>> Am I trying to swim in too deep water?
>>
>> And yes, I know that the non-pae kernel was re-activated for Lubuntu and
>> Xubuntu 12.04, but abandoned after 12.04.
>>
>> I was thinking this fix could keep the Pentium Ms running for a few more
>> years with Lubuntu. I think work-arounds like starting with the mini-iso
>> is not for the average user, that might want to migrate from Windows XP
>> within a year (I'm thinking about amjjawad's campaign to offer Lubuntu
>> to those people). Another alternative is ronniew's LXLE, that offers a
>> full 5 year LTS of a Lubuntu fork.
>>
>> But if it is simple to make the modern kernel available for Pentium M, I
>> think it is the best solution.
>>
>> Best regards
>> Nio
>>
>>
> Hi Nio,
> 
> I probably should have linked that bug report differently. I was just
> trying to show that I originally renamed the bug to; "Unable to Install
> Ubuntu 12.04 on Pentium M x86 Laptop due to PAE kernel."
> 
> It's since been renamed "Unable to start Ubuntu 12.04 live CD with
> syslinux loader on Pentium M x86 Laptop due to bug in PAE kernel,
> initramfs or syslinux".
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/930447
> 
> The kernel team marked it "won't fix", and it's unassigned in syslinux,
> but it is assigned to a Baltix dev.
> 
> So I think a new bug would just be duplicate of that.
> 
> Lance
> 
Hi Lance

I read a fair part of the comments of that bug, and I see why you think
a new bug would just be duplicate of that.

But, do you encourage or discourage me to report this as a bug? In other
words, do you think it will make any difference?

Best regards
Nio