As Chris said, it is a purely political. The changes are trivial. Syslinux would need to remove the PAE check, or ideally, add the exclusion of the Pentium-M. Syslinux can be bypassed by using grub and chainloading the iso (described in a few comments above) bypasses the boot issue.
As for kernel upgrades, yes, fake-pae solves that part. They are both hacks, but work quite well, but the same 'fix' would apply there aswell. If PAE && !Pentium-M (); Anyay, even if you have these patches, you'd have to convince the Ubuntu council as they said 'no pae' and forgot about Pentium-M (PAE is from the pentium-pro area, so understandable to ignore CPU's before Pentium Pro. -- 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 start Ubuntu 12.04 live CD with syslinux loader on Pentium M x86 Laptop due to bug in PAE kernel, initramfs or syslinux To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/930447/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
