Oh, oh, I like this. We never did it because it always was x86 (BIOS is x86 only, as opposed to arm64, which is UEFI, as you pointed out), but there is no reason you should not be able to build for x86 while on arm64 (or riscv64).

Please do the following:

1. squash the commits to a single one
2. sign the commit(s) git commit -s
3. run ./scripts/update-component-sha.sh --pkg ./tools/mkimage-iso-bios to update any dependencies.

Oh yeah, and remove from "draft"

@deitch The PR is in draft mode because I could need your advice on what output formats did not work on arm64. And whether there is a different architecture you would like me to check.

Thanks for pointing out the contributing guidelines. I will do it right away

I checked the other ones, it seems that we should leave it with mkimage-iso-bios for now

@deitch

Here we go. Everything should be ready for review now.

One of the commits isn't signed. Either sign that one, too, or squash them to a single signed commit, please.

Here we go!

The DCO still is failing. Please check how to pass it here

@deitch

Weird, I think it was due to the missing Signed-Off message. The DCO check seems to be valid now, but there is no verified tag next to my commit. Is that expected?

Looks good to me. We don't actually exercise it as part of CI (the tests there mostly use UEFI), so please confirm that you did a build and booted it successfully.

Tests are failing because tools/ packages are not pushed automatically by CI. I can handle that and restart the failing tests.

Pushed out, restarted failing tests. Let's see if CI is clean.

Getting failure here. Did you forget to copy over some dependencies?

Thanks for your time

I see this

[STDERR  ] 2025-02-07T10:07:20.751080629Z: Error loading shared library libuuid.so.1: No such file or directory (needed by /syslinux/isohybrid)
[STDERR  ] 2025-02-07T10:07:20.751091189Z: Error relocating /syslinux/isohybrid: uuid_generate: symbol not found
[STDERR  ] 2025-02-07T10:07:20.751101128Z: 
[STDERR  ] 2025-02-07T10:07:20.751113602Z: 2025/02/07 10:07:20 error during command execution: error writing outputs: Error writing iso-bios output: docker run linuxkit/mkimage-iso-bios:ca3da0ac21b1b307eb922163ee4607014d28ea5b failed: exit status 127 output:

And that's confusing because all we did was removing syslinux dep.

So that points to the fact that libuuid is a dependency of syslinux...

Edit: Yes, I just verified this.
https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/main/x86/syslinux

So if we add libuuid to the list of deps, we should be fine (works on all platforms)

Yes I think that makes sense. The current method was apk add syslinux, which included all dependencies. By doing it in an earlier stage and just copying over the files you know, you risk missing some.

Might be worth running a test manually. Build this locally and try to run syslinux and see what dependencies are missing before pushing out again.