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Here's the thing, I was resizing my partition and gparted crashed (I was running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Windows XP SP3 dual boot), so now my computer won't boot. I wanted to try and use the PPA boot-repair to help my computer boot, so I:

  1. Booted off of my original Ubuntu 11.10 CD and tried to install the PPA boot-repair by yannubuntu, but sadly boot-repair isn't compatible with 11.10.

  2. Downloaded Ubuntu 12.04 and put that on a thumb drive so I could use boot-repair, but my computer won't boot off of that because it is kind of old and doesn't support PAE.

I want to be able to use my computer again, if I understand correctly, I can only get Ubuntu 12.04 if I upgrade from 11.10 because of the PAE issue. Is there a way around this? Can I somehow make the thumb drive boot from ubuntu 12.04 but use a older kernel that doesn't need PAE? I know that my computer can run 12.04 because it worked before.

Thanks a lot, DeveloperNewb

Edit: Is it possible to deceive boot-repair into thinking I have ubuntu 12.04 so I can run it in 11.10?

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According to this answer, 32-bit Xubuntu 12.04 doesn't expect PAE by default. You should be able to create a bootable USB and load boot-repair/install from that.

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  • It's fine, I gave up and re-installed Ubuntu 11.10, then I'm gonna update to Ubuntu 12.04 and use boot-repair. Thanks for the tip though. – Moose Sep 20 '13 at 02:20