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cryptoluks

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Registered: 2015-04-26

Posts: 15

Installing Arch on TrekStor SurfTab wintron 7.0 (32 bit EFI)

The tablet has only 32 bit EFI, so I copied bootia32.efi to /boot/EFI/Boot and started Arch with the following grub commands:

set root=(hd0)
linux   /arch/boot/x86_64/vmlinuz archisobasedir=arch archisolabel=ARCH_201602
initrd  /arch/boot/x86_64/archiso.img
boot

bootia32.efi Source: https://github.com/jfwells/linux-asus-t … otia32.efi

Question: How to configure systemd-boot to boot to Arch without manual intervention.

olive

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2008-06-22

Posts: 1,490

Re: Installing Arch on TrekStor SurfTab wintron 7.0 (32 bit EFI)

If you want to launch a 64 bits kernel from a 32 bits EFI, systemd boot can't do it. AFAIK only grub can do such thing (you could launch grub with systemd-boot what's the point?).  I have no idea how the bootia32.efi has been generated but apparently it is just a 32 bits grub. Rather than reverse engineering their configuration, I suggest to generate such 32 bits grub yourself. This is well documented in the wiki and easy to do (see grub standalone). You can just then use this grub normally. As configured in the wiki their grub standalone look for a file grub.cfg in the same directory as the efi grub, this is well explained.

Last edited by olive (2016-02-25 09:46:25)