"With your serial console ready, plug in the ALIX board’s power adapter, and you should see the board begin to boot. While the memory check is being performed, press the ‘s’ key to enter the tinyBIOS settings, and verify that PXE boot is enabled (if it isn’t, press ‘e’ to toggle it)."
So PXE is another option. But then you have to go through a DHCP, TFTP, extract root image to NBD or NFS, etc. hazzle I did that for some other old machines booting just a iPXE floppy, but it's a hazzle to set up and I currently don't have a nice walkthrough (though some hints maybe in this forum in section "Artwork, Screenshots & Setups", https://bbs.archlinux32.org/viewtopic.php?id=360 ).
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I didn't have any luck booting an USB stick on the Alix, so I just installed the Compact flash from another
PC with a Compact flash reader/writer in it, setting Architecture=i486 and doing a pacstrap.
PXE was also no option on the device.
Note also: currently this i486 branch has only a very limited set of packages, mainly text-based, no
Xorg, nothing depending on librsvg (I'm looking at you - librsvg/rust).
Another potential problem: I'm using an Alix with a normal BIOS, yours has a tinyBIOS. There you
might be into some fiddling how to load the ramdisk and the kernel from tinyBIOS (I have no experience
here as my other Alix with tinyBIOS is running OpenBSD and is my central router, so no fiddling there for
me :-) ).
"This kernel requires an i686 CPU, but only detected an i586 CPU.
Unable to boot - please use a kernel appropriate for your CPU."
I have made sure to add the "arch=i686" kernel parameter.
Does Arch 32 work with such a setup?
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