Re: Multi-arch installer
Ian Eure <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.debian.fai |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Steffen Grunewald <[email protected]> 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