[clug] How to Auto-detect architecture and boot 64-bit kernel if possible?

[Daniel Pittman]

steve jenkin <sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au> writes:

> My Google Fu is at a low ebb :-(
>
> Can anyone help me with a recipe to either:
>  - tweak initrd to act as a bootloader and execute a new (64-bit) kernel
>  - or at the start of the boot, detect 64-bit and twiddle grub menu &
>    reboot.
>
> Target system is Debian...
> But if techniques exist in other environment, I could adapt them.

I believe that the syslinux family of bootloaders, which includes extlinix,
have this capacity.
        Daniel

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