[SOLVED] Building a i686 ISO on x86-64 system with archiso

Mystal · 2010-02-11 14:42:04

I am on a system with an x86-64 installation of Arch and want to create an i686 ISO using archiso. So, the main question is, can this be done?

I am running archiso-git and have followed the wiki for the most part. I did two things differently to try to build an i686 system:

1.Give the mkarchiso command a pacman.conf file pointing to i686 repositories
2. Change the ARCH?=$(shell uname -m) to ARCH?=i686

The ISO built just fine, but when I went to try to boot it (testing with qemu-kvm) it starts up, does some initialization and then hangs giving me a few messages saying:
request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-464c

Any ideas?

Last edited by Mystal (2010-02-15 01:15:05)

MAroco · 2010-02-13 05:56:04

I'd guess you either forgot to include the modules on the CD or it could perhaps be an issue with a wrong mkinitcpio.conf MODULES or HOOKS line.

Stythys · 2010-02-13 05:57:23

I just do it in my 32-bit chroot

djgera · 2010-02-13 06:08:38

The most simple way is having a 32 bit chroot enviroment and entering to chroot with linux32 the do a make.

PS: Note that current archiso.git requires [testing] enabled. Or reset the tree to commit a2f6841c

Mystal · 2010-02-15 01:14:46

Sounds like a plan then. I was just wondering if there was a way to do it out of the box.

Thanks for the replies!

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#1 2010-02-11 14:42:04

[SOLVED] Building a i686 ISO on x86-64 system with archiso

#2 2010-02-13 05:56:04

Re: [SOLVED] Building a i686 ISO on x86-64 system with archiso

#3 2010-02-13 05:57:23

Re: [SOLVED] Building a i686 ISO on x86-64 system with archiso

#4 2010-02-13 06:08:38

Re: [SOLVED] Building a i686 ISO on x86-64 system with archiso

#5 2010-02-15 01:14:46

Re: [SOLVED] Building a i686 ISO on x86-64 system with archiso

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