Multi-arch installer
Ian Eure
ian at retrospec.tv
Tue May 10 17:51:39 CEST 2022
Steffen Grunewald <steffen.grunewald at aei.mpg.de> writes:
> On Mon, 2022-05-09 at 21:50:23 -0700, Ian Eure wrote:
>> I have some oddball hardware I want to use FAI on. It has a
>> 64-bit CPU, but
>> its UEFI BIOS only supports 32-bits. I can manually install
>> with the Debian
>> multi-arch image[1], which has a 32-bit bootloader, but
>> correctly installs
>> amd64 kernel and packages.
>>
>> Is there a way to get FAI to do something similar?
>
> I may not fully understand your problem, but wouldn't FAI just
> detect the
> availability of UEFI (via /sys/)?
>
Relevant background here is that I’m booting FAI off a CD image,
because this hardware doesn’t have Ethernet. The image doesn’t
even boot, because it has a 64-bit bootloader which the computer’s
32-bit UEFI can’t use. So it can’t make any decisions based on
what’s in /sys.
-- Ian
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