Re: will an armel install on a x86_64 machine bork ???

[Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>]

On Fri, 2014-05-16 at 22:21 +0100, RichardBown wrote:
> Hi
> If I use a install CD for ARMEL on this machine, which is x86_64, will
> it write a OS on a drive thats plugged in, or will it see the wrong
> processor and bork out ??,

The kernel will be an ARM one, so it won't even boot. In fact the CD
probably won't even include a bootsector, so it won't even try the
kernel.