i read "experimental" in those links - and i think there are people who
dislike installing their operating system in a re-packaged way  from a
community based, untrusted source.  nothing against you, nio, you appear
trustworthy - but i`m one of those.

if all the community efforts had been put into the kernel fix instead of
fake pae or building alternative installation methods  , then we would
not sit here and discuss.  it may be a logical step, that these
workaround exist, but it`s always better to adress the root cause
instead of tempering with a symptom.

it was good work to provide those workarounds, but it would be even
better work to integrate the kernel fix from upstream now and help
bugging  the ubuntu devs to do so.

while writing this, i bet the kernel  based fix had probably alrady
being done if the community workarounds never existed, because while
they existed the ubuntu devs could lean back and tell the user: Pentium
M? naah, that`s old, watch out for fake-pae and alternative installer
disks as a workaround. that probably HELPED a LOT of users but it did
not help fixing the root cause, because many users never needed to
complain because of that. linux people like tinkering...oh yes.

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  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

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