I'll add my experience, hope this helps. Ultra short version: add many Mini-ITX EPIA boards to the list of affected systems, and possibly remove the Asus EeePC 701 from the same list.
The Via EPIA EK-10000G board with a Nehemiah 1GHz CPU does not have PAE, but having two ethernet ports and onboard Serial-ATA it's still a useful system. Of course it fails booting from the current 12.04 standard netboot image, but boots and installs just fine from the current 12.04 non-pae netboot image. The real problem on this board is that with the default vga=something command line option (from the netboot image) you won't see the kernel dmesg, so you won't see the "This kernel requires the following features not present on the CPU: pae" message either and will just keep staring at a blank screen. Since this is affected by the VGA, I cannot confirm if a different monitor would work better (but I can confirm that the non-pae image will show up the installer fine with the same vga= option on my system). I sill have around some slightly older EPIA M10000 boards that should use the same CPU and be affected by the same non-pae issue. @lbsolost: I can confirm that the non-pae netboot image (item #2.C of your list ;) works perfectly on my non-PAE EPIA EK-10000G (I choose, as usual, the Ubuntu Server environment, and it installed and rebooted correctly on the non-pae kernel image). I use that as a low-wattage server and it's great to be able to run 12.04 LTS on the system. I guess its real usefulness will come to an end before Precise Pangolin end of life :) @danniel and @eexpress My Asus EeePC 701 (the first model, with 4GB onboard SSD and Celeron-M 900MHz underclocked to ~600MHz) does have PAE, and is currently running Precise installed from the standard netboot image (not the non-pae one). It is actually running the non-pae kernel but I can't remember if the installer choose it automatically or if it let me choose. You should see the 'pae' flag in /proc/cpuinfo even if you're running a non-pae kernel. Anyway, I manually installed the PAE kernel and can confirm it can boot just fine too. IIRC, the CPU inside the 701 should be a Celeron M ULV 353: http://ark.intel.com/products/27157 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/930447 Title: Unable to Install Ubuntu 12.04 on Pentium M x86 Laptop due to PAE kernel To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/930447/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
