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Re: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS flavours will work with Pentium M and Celeron M

 

It appears that the email account has not been removed.... I'll ask as to
what needs doing. Please do use phillw@xxxxxxxxxx

Regards,

Phill.


On 6 March 2014 23:18, Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Phill,
>
> Yes I want to be involved :-)
>
> By the way, is your old ubuntu mail address working again? The email
> that I am replying to seems to be sent from it.
>
> Best regards
> Nio
>
> 2014-03-06 23:52, Phill Whiteside skrev:
> > Nio,
> >
> > indeed... from how I read it, the Celeron 'M's that can support pae but
> > do not advertise it will be automatically supported. I understand that
> > there are two early 'M' chips that cannot support pae at all.
> >
> > In the meantime, the work on the non-pae community respin of lubuntu
> > 14.04 alternate continues.... Both my self and bodhi are committed to
> > get this sorted so it is not only released on time, but has
> > documentation to ensure people can help keep it up dated for the 5
> > years.... with the passing of fake-pae I hope you may want to get
> > involved. I've allocated a dedicated build machine solely for the
> > non-pae 14.04 lts.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Phill.
> >
> >
> > On 6 March 2014 22:46, Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx
> > <mailto:nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi everybody,
> >
> >     I think the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS flavours will work with Pentium M and
> >     Celeron M CPUs :-)
> >
> >     I wrote this comment in the bug report at Launchpad about the bug for
> >     Pentium M and Celeron M CPUs with PAE capability but without PAE
> flag.
> >
> >     https://bugs.launchpad.net/baltix/+bug/930447
> >
> >     Best regards
> >     Nio
> >     -----
> >     Now it is time for me to say thank you :-)
> >
> >     First of all, *I want to thank everybody contributing* to solving
> this
> >     bug, or complex of bugs, concerning Pentium M and Celeron M CPUs and
> new
> >     Ubuntu based kernels.
> >
> >     Then I want to mention roland aus köln (devzero-c), who continued
> >     pushing this issue when we had given up (either completely or like
> me,
> >     resorting to work-arounds).
> >
> >     And I want to thank Chris Bainbridge, who was able to do the actual
> >     bug-fixes that made the ship turn around. I don't know if you are a
> >     developer or a very skilled user, but you made a great difference.
> >
> >     Finally I want to thank you Chris for sharing the link to
> instructions,
> >     that actually got me over the threshold to build a custom syslinux
> >     bootable system. I'm working right now on a debian system, that
> should
> >     be able to install from a CD/DVD or USB drive to very different
> systems
> >     (including very old and limited systems) by flashing compressed image
> >     files (img.xz files) or iso files and growing the file system when
> there
> >     is extra space available.
> >
> >     I show the link again for everybody else, who might be interested. It
> >     works for me with a couple of minor tweaks, the main one that I
> needed
> >     to import a gpg key separately.
> >
> >     Best regards
> >     sudodus alias Nio
> >
> >     ----- Comment #279 -----
> >     Chris Bainbridge (chris-bainbridge) wrote on 2014-03-03: #279
> >
> >     lkml: "grub is jumping to the 32-bit entry point and skipping the
> entire
> >     real mode setup code. Bad grub."
> >
> >     You don't need to build a syslinux bootable iso. You can boot the
> kernel
> >     from Grub in 16-bit mode by using the linux16 command
> >     http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/linux16.html and
> >     initrd16
> >     https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/initrd16.html
> >
> >     According to the discussion on LKML, linux16 is now the default on
> >     Fedora, and should be used by other distributions.
> >
> >     (If you still want to build a custom syslinux bootable system, just
> for
> >     fun, see the instructions at
> >     http://willhaley.com/blog/create-a-custom-debian-live-environment/ -
> >     it's about 25 lines of code in total, and not difficult to follow)
> >     -----
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