Installing 32-bit software on 64-bit computer
I have used autoyast SUSE Pro 9.2 on a variety of 32-bit machines without problems. I want to install on an HP xw6200 machine and it gives be a message - "Cool computer, but you are about to install 32-bit software on a 64-bit computer". Now it requires manual intervention right at the start and after first reboot. I think this message is from the boot loader. Is there any way to suppress this so that the installation can proceed automated. Thanks! Bis.
I got around the "Cool computer but ..." dialog by playing with gfxboot, basically turned off the do_64bit_check. Can anyone point me to documentation on how gfxboot hooks into grub? Thanks, Bis.
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Bis Kanungo wrote:
I got around the "Cool computer but ..." dialog by playing with gfxboot, basically turned off the do_64bit_check. Can anyone point me to documentation on how gfxboot hooks into grub?
Thanks, Bis.
Where did you find that? I can't see any reference to it in my existing xml and no obvious option to toggle via yast2 autoyast. I have the opposite problem. I have a 64 bit machine to autoinstall to test 64 bit apps on, but using my existing 9.2 profile it installs 32 bit. A manual install gives us the option, but clearly I want to automate this decision. Help? Thanks. John
John Sloan wrote:
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Bis Kanungo wrote:
I got around the "Cool computer but ..." dialog by playing with gfxboot, basically turned off the do_64bit_check. Can anyone point me to documentation on how gfxboot hooks into grub?
Thanks, Bis.
Where did you find that? I can't see any reference to it in my existing xml and no obvious option to toggle via yast2 autoyast.
I have the opposite problem. I have a 64 bit machine to autoinstall to test 64 bit apps on, but using my existing 9.2 profile it installs 32 bit. A manual install gives us the option, but clearly I want to automate this decision.
Help?
Thanks.
John
I am using two packages that are on the SUSE Pro 9.2 DVD, gfxboot-2.5-12.i586.rpm autoyast2-utils-2.10.13-2.noarch.rpm Using these two I am creating my own self install iso image. gfxboot hooks into grub to display a graphical boot screen. If you install gfxboot, look in gfxboot/themes/SuSE/common.inc this is where the do_64bit_check is done. I changed this for my need. But in your case, it should automatically detect a 64 bit machine and installing the 64 bit apps. The other rpm is for create_package_descr to create a package database. Try with the DVD if it will install 64 bit. As I have said, the gfxboot checks are not documented in autoyast. Bis.
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