Sunday, October 18, 2020

"Baytrail" style machines with 32bit (U)EFI yet 64bit CPU's are, of course, really bloody annoying. Neither windows 10 nor any linux seems to work very well with such systems. Most variants of linux flat out do not support it. Fedora claimed/s to support it in some places, but then the manual explicitly denies it, and it did not work when I tried it. On my old MacPro I did somehow heaven only knows how get reFind to work and now have it all happy but I literally do not know what I did any more and could probably never get it ever working again there if I had to. On my cursed AIMB-270 i3 330M setup I once - once! - got Debian to install per https://wiki.debian.org/UEFI#Support_for_mixed-mode_systems:_64-bit_system_with_32-bit_UEFI but then it crapped out and won't boot right and now I can't get the setup to work again either. So overall it appears that getting the installer to even run is heavily non-deterministic. Yay. 

Email me if you want a free AIMB-270 i3 330M motherboard with 8GB RAM. Sheesh.

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