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The future of 32-bit Linux

The future of 32-bit Linux

Posted Mar 16, 2021 13:11 UTC (Tue) by amacater (subscriber, #790)
In reply to: The future of 32-bit Linux by mat2
Parent article: The future of 32-bit Linux

A quicker check, maybe, for this situation on an unknown PC: boot the netinst for Debian multi-arch - there are various settings there, one of which is 64 bit kernel and 32 bit userland.

I do remember a Toshiba tablet/convertible PC which was almost exactly this and the multi-arch was the only thing that would boot
it at all.

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The future of 32-bit Linux

Posted Mar 16, 2021 18:08 UTC (Tue) by mat2 (guest, #100235) [Link]

This won't work because the 64-bit kernel detects whether the CPU supports the 64-bit mode and refuses to boot otherwise.
So a mixed mode system will not boot, it is necessary to override the check in the kernel.


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