[TriLUG] Multiboot CD Question

[Roy Vestal]

True. Didn't think about that. Oh well. Too late. I already built it ;)

Maybe ver 0.1.1  :D

On 3/22/10 11:28 AM, Bill Farrow wrote:
>> On 3/22/10 9:46 AM, Roy Vestal wrote:
>>      
>>> I used the CentOS LiveCD howto and minimal kickstart for the LiveCD. I
>>> added 'dmidecode' and 'pciutils' to the kickstart packages. I also created a
>>> post install to add "prtdiag" script to the disk. I had to modify the
>>> prtdiag a little to get it to do what I wanted. Here are the links:
>>>        
> If this CD is a just a tool for gathering diagnostic information, you
> can probably do this with a single 32bit (i386) bootable kernel and
> filesystem which should run on both 32bit and 64bit "Intel x86"
> architectures.
>
> Once booted into Linux you can read the CPU flags from /proc/cpuinfo
> to work out if the CPU supports 64 bit ("lm" flag).  For example, in a
> bash script you could do this:
>
>    if [ `grep -E -w "lm" /proc/cpuinfo | head -n 1 | wc -l` -eq 1 ];
> then echo 64bit; else echo 32bit; fi
>
> Of course you could adapt this script to do other actions, like
> automating which HDD image to fetch from a server, etc.
>
> Bill
>