Delete i686 files from Live USB?

cmykevin · 2017-01-19 16:48:08

For whatever reason, the live medium is booting as i686 on my Core 2 Duo iMac.
While the actual Arch install recognizes that it's an x86_64 machine, packages installed through the live medium come in as i686.

This causes issues (for example, I had errors with my graphics driver where the screen goes black – when I boot into the live usb to fix it, any files installed will by i686).

My question is: Is it safe to delete the i686 files from my live medium, in order to force it to boot in x86_64 mode?
If so, which files/directories should I focus on?

Thanks

Scimmia · 2017-01-19 16:50:23

How did you write the image to the drive?

Xyne · 2017-01-19 17:04:06

edit
Ignore this post. See Scimmia's reply below.

pacstrap is just a wrapper around pacman with some default arguments. By my interpretation of the code (I haven't tested it), you should be able to pass "--arch x86_64" as the final argument to pacstrap to force it to use your target architecture (or use the pacstrap option to select a modified configuration file with the Architecture set to x86_64).

Last edited by Xyne (2017-01-19 17:46:12)

Scimmia · 2017-01-19 17:15:07

If it's booting i686, though, he wouldn't be able to chroot, and a whole lot of install scripts and hooks would fail. Don't do this.

cmykevin · 2017-01-19 17:54:02

Scimmia wrote:

How did you write the image to the drive?

I used unetbootin only because I got a "Missing Operating System" error when using dd directly.

Scimmia · 2017-01-19 18:12:40

Yeah, unetbootin is the problem here. Know issue.

cmykevin · 2017-01-19 18:51:19

Got it. So is it feasible to delete the i686 files, or should I be looking to solve the Missing OS issue?

For clarification, the dd write was done exactly as in the wiki, from an existing Arch install:

dd bs=4M if=/path/to/archlinux.iso of=/dev/sdx status=progress && sync

mis · 2017-01-19 19:26:59

Maybe try another usb drive? I had some issues with a very cheap one, no boot at all..

Scimmia · 2017-01-20 00:15:12

Is this a UEFI or a BIOS system?

cmykevin · 2017-01-20 01:50:52

uefi

Scimmia · 2017-01-20 01:52:15

Being that old, is it a 32-bit UEFI implementation? Information on that is in the Wiki.

cmykevin · 2017-01-20 02:06:59

Seems to have 64 bit UEFI. It's a late 2009 27" iMac. Seems like earlier than 2007 had 32 bit.

Scimmia · 2017-01-20 02:22:58

Core 2 Duo in a late 2009 system? Wouldn't have expected that.

If that's the case, writing it directly to USB should work AFAIK.

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