Re: Multi-arch installer

Ian Eure <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.fai
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
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