From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] systemrescuecd: using x86 for amd64
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 19:34:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200811051934.48932.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200811051947.35314.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
On Mittwoch 05 November 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 November 2008 18:22:00 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > On Mittwoch 05 November 2008, Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
> > > 2008/11/5 Momesso Andrea <momesso.andrea@gmail.com>:
> > > > So it is possible to chroot from a 32 to a 64 bit enviroment? And is
> > > > it safe?
> > >
> > > AFAIK chroot from 32 to 64 bit is not possible.
> >
> > you are wrong.
> >
> > You can do it, BUT you need a 64bit kernel.
>
> Ah, but how often have you seen a 32 bit userland running atop a 64 bit
> kernel? I've never seen it (unusual cases like a 32 bit Firefox on a 64 bit
> system excepted)
just boot systemresucuecd with the 64bit kernel. You have a 32bit userland,
64bit kernel and you can chroot into 64bit systems without any problems at
all.
Done it several times.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-05 18:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-04 20:35 [gentoo-user] systemrescuecd: using x86 for amd64 Allan Gottlieb
2008-11-04 20:53 ` Allan Gottlieb
2008-11-04 21:13 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-11-04 21:31 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2008-11-05 6:10 ` Momesso Andrea
2008-11-05 7:44 ` Daniel Pielmeier
2008-11-05 8:08 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-11-05 16:22 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-11-05 16:22 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-11-05 17:47 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-11-05 18:34 ` Volker Armin Hemmann [this message]
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