From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FIDv1-00014S-1v for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 23:54:43 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2BNr28B031996; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 23:53:02 GMT Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2BNr1JX005936 for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 23:53:02 GMT Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FIDtJ-0008C0-LZ for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 00:52:58 +0100 Received: from ip68-230-97-182.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.230.97.182]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 00:52:57 +0100 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-230-97-182.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 00:52:57 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: VMware Player on Gentoo question Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 16:52:43 -0700 Organization: Organization? Me? Message-ID: References: <5bdc1c8b0603071706p4b9ea8bay8b137d4f7f136f7e@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0603111053m3d8c1ed5t19aecdfdd9b429cb@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0603111057m34fde639s8b1ec8bba9d1e737@mail.gmail.com> <200603112005.27172.tcoulon@decoulon.ch> <5bdc1c8b0603111127l3caf70f8q754e5d4b8ddefd97@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-230-97-182.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 8b86f30c-d7e4-4213-a177-d863b02887e1 X-Archives-Hash: a28beae316229d0cd349d1bc3c953b14 Mark Knecht posted <5bdc1c8b0603111127l3caf70f8q754e5d4b8ddefd97@mail.gmail.com>, excerpted below, on Sat, 11 Mar 2006 11:27:50 -0800: > QUESTION: Should I not (somehow) be able to boot my chrooted 32-bit > environment instead of 64-bit as a grub option? I've not tried to do > that on this machine. It's always run 64-bit from day 1. Yes, you should, provided you have built an entire 32-bit system, kernel and all included. The 32-bit system will need to be on its own partition as well, I believe, or at least that would be simplest. You /should/ be able to boot a 64-bit kernel with a 32-bit userland, as well, given of course that you've opted for 32-bit executable support, which I assume you have if you are running a 32-bit chroot. Just point root at your 32-bit root partition, but load a 64-bit kernel. As for the parallels problem... It's apparently trying to install a 32-bit module (binary-only slaveryware I assume) in a 64-bit kernel. That's not going to work for the same reason 32-bit libraries won't work in 64-bit executables. You'll need a 32-bit kernel, the first option above. Of course, that means you won't be able to do 64-bit at all until you reboot to 64-bit. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list