31.10.2015 20:41, jdd пишет:

Hello,

I had to install linux on the Asus x205t netbook this afternoon.

It's not an easy task and I couldn't achieve it with openSUSE.

With he help of a friend I could do it with a debian usb demo.

The reason is that this computer uses a 32 bits UEFI BIOS (on a 64 bits computer).

Yes, we need to support it. It involves kernel, grub, perl-Bootloader and YaST. Kernel should support it now, grub upstream supports it (if kernel does) and we just need to apply patch, perl-Bootloader is easy (check single file). YaST is rather more involving. This also means 64 bit image must contain both 32 and 64 bit bootloaders. The first step is to open bug report for each component :)

Adding there is secure boot, but this can be removed and widows could be also removed.

Oh, yes, shim. I suppose 32 bit shim exists but I did not check.

The disk is a small 32Gb device. Not even a ssd, not even sata but simply a SD card with the associated IO.

Nothing of this is really a problem, But I had no 32 bit openSUSE with EFI boot.

If it supports legacy boot you can install it and then switch to EFI.

My friend had in his pocket a Debian usb pen with both 32 and 64 bits UEFI and the computer could boot with it. But this was a netinstall pen drive and the computer have no ethernet, only wifi. His wifi needs at least 4.0 kernel... So my friend had to burn a 32 bits distro on a pen drive, booot with his pen drive, chroot to the other one and finally install from there

probably nothing that can't be done from openSUSE given the good product are at hand.

Didn't we have some time ago a 32bits/64bits live dvd?

This is simply a report in case any of your have to do similar thing? have to build a 32 bits uefi pen drive

by the way, one have to press ESC repetitively at boot to get to start menu

jdd

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