From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KxnDT-0003yg-ER for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:34:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 03E94E0053; Wed, 5 Nov 2008 18:34:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.21]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0BDDE046F for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2008 18:34:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 8F176212C24 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2008 19:34:52 +0100 (CET) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (poseidon [139.174.2.21]) by poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EFEB212C23 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2008 19:34:52 +0100 (CET) Received: from [2001:638:605:eea0:219:66ff:fe86:ce12] (account wevah HELO energy.localnet) by tu-clausthal.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.9) with ESMTPSA id 38589685 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:34:52 +0100 From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] systemrescuecd: using x86 for amd64 Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 19:34:48 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.90 (Linux/2.6.27.4r4; KDE/4.1.71; x86_64; ; ) References: <200811051722.00762.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <200811051947.35314.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200811051947.35314.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200811051934.48932.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V5.4 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: 01b03f97-f22a-4183-b2ac-f223cea3a45b X-Archives-Hash: 66a4870fe3f6a319b7f6adc7a574f4b6 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 : > > > > 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.