Soo many distro's

FYI not a bug. Ubuntu no longer supports non-PAE kernel because its has a hard to maintain set of patches and not enough resources to support.

Cheers, Nick.

 

I do consider my issue a bug.

"oliver (oliver-schinagl) wrote on 2013-04-30:
I'm supprised that some people still don't understand what this is about (nofi).
This is about syslinux adapting:
if (!((flags & PAE) && (cpuid == Pentium-M)) {
printf("CPU not supported\n");
} else {
boot()
}
It should be that simple. The Pentium-M is a supported CPU, but lacks the PAE flag. That's it". link.

Those willing can still load 13.04, as explained in the bug report link using grub on a usb stick but it's tedious and not worth it imo.
Dropping support for ancient hardware due to limited resources is one thing but ignoring/not-supporting capable notebooks over less than 10 lines of code because a CPU doesn't announce a PAE flag 'properly' is just lame.

 

Very interesting !

Cheers for sharing that.