problem with initramfs-tools

[Eyal Lebedinsky]

On 20/12/24 6:30 pm, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
> On Fri, 2024-12-20 at 07:17 +1100, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
>> The only requirement was that it is 32-bit.
> 
> I posted 2 commands, but you never returned the output.

In case it matters:

$ grep 'model name' /proc/cpuinfo
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz

$ uname -a
Linux raspberry 6.1.0-27-686-pae #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.115-1 (2024-11-01) i686 GNU/Linux

The raspberryPi thing is just the machine name because the installed system is
the debian raspberry pi for a PC from
         http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/dists/bookworm/main/binary-i386/...
I still think that there is something that needs fixing there, but as I mentioned elsewhere
that I plan to do a fresh install of an i686 distro, no Pi.

> Not all Intel/AMD processors have the same instruction sets, regardless
> of whether it is a 32-bit or 64-bit architecture.
> 
> Your best bet is to find out which generation your 32-bit CPU is from
> and then use distro watch's search, https://distrowatch.com/search.php .
> Then check how long the listed distros support 32-bit and if they are
> not using a freakish base, such as musl, unless you want to use this and
> if they provide the software you need. Don't google, since it returns
> all kind of misinformation, half-truths etc.
> 
> My comment to the frugal Tiny Core Linux:
> 
> GNU/Linux Compatibility:
> 
> "To make your Tiny Core system more fully GNU compatible, use appbrowser
> and select coreutils.tcz and util-linux.tcz. This will replace the
> busybox used in the base system to the full power of the GNU versions."
> - http://tinycorelinux.net/faq.html#compatibility
> 
> This is super-freakish!
> 
> Unless you want to experiment with Linux for very special purposes, e.g.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_on_embedded_systems don't install a
> distro with a freakish base.
> 
> The step from a major distribution like Debian to such freak
> distributions is bigger than from Debian to FreeBSD, because a lot of
> things work quite differently in such a freak distribution or FreeBSD,
> than in Linux major distros, but FreeBSD at least offers a large
> selection of software that freak distributions usually don't have.

It is not a freak but a proper distro, not something I cooked myself though.

HTH



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