detecting i386 or x86_64 in kickstart

Coe, Colin C. (Unix Engineer) Colin.Coe at woodside.com.au
Mon Jan 29 23:59:04 UTC 2007


Hey all

This is easiest done with a custom SYSLINUX COM32 module.  If you look
back over the last week or two of the SYSLINUX mailing list archives
you'll find some related posts.

CC

> -----Original Message-----
> From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Klaus Steden
> Sent: Monday, 29 January 2007 5:20 PM
> To: Discussion list about Kickstart
> Subject: Re: detecting i386 or x86_64 in kickstart
> 
> 
> > Hello.
> > 
> > I don't totally agree with this detection. Here we have 
> several 64bits 
> > servers which are Intel(R) Xeon(TM) Maybe do we need to check about 
> > cpu flags.
> > 
> You're right, with some architectures you would need to check 
> both the model name and number, and possibly the CPU family, 
> but the point remains - you can determine a lot about your 
> system just by checking /proc/cpuinfo.
> 
> Klaus
> 
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