I booted up the elementary luna beta1 live CD today, only to be greeted by this error:
This kernel requires the following features not present on the CPU:
pae
Unable to boot - please use a kernel appropriate for your CPU.
After fumbling around for a while, I was finally able to make my own non-PAE image. I’m not sure how well it will work for others, because the installation itself seems to install a PAE kernel, but it worked fine on my machine that was giving me the above error and doesn’t support PAE (at least according to cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep -i pae). Here’s the link:
http://uploading.com/files/get/f5cdcc7c/elementaryos-beta1-i386-nonpae.20121114.iso
If there’s a better site to upload it to, let me know. I’d put it in dropbox but there’s a daily bandwidth limit, and I don’t want my account flagged for abuse.
Try uploading to http://min.us
It’d be nice if somebody provided instructions on building non-PAE images so I could build a semi-official non-PAE image.
minus.com has a 30 MB file size limit, and only seems to be for images anyway.
I documented the steps I took to build the image:
https://sites.google.com/site/bmaupinwiki/home/operating-systems/gnu-linux/ubuntuelementary/creating-ubuntu-elementary-non-pae-iso