[arch-releng] [PATCH - help needed] archiso2dual: Autodetect whether we can boot x86_64

Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar
Sun Oct 17 14:49:36 EDT 2010


  On 10/17/2010 03:41 PM, Heiko Baums wrote:
> Am Sun, 17 Oct 2010 19:46:37 +0200
> schrieb Thomas Bächler<thomas at archlinux.org>:
>
>> I'd like to have autodetection for 64 bit CPUs.
> I don't like this idea, because I'd like to decide by myself which
> branch I want to boot and install. There are probably people who want to
> install the i686 version on an x86_64 system.
>
> I'm personally using the x86_64 version as my main system but there are
> reasons why someone could want to install the i686 version.
>
> Heiko
>
This does not enforce. If you boot the with 32 bits CPU you do not have 
64 bit option on syslinux. But if you have a 64 cpu you can chose 
beetwen blue pill or red pill ;)

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Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
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