On Tuesday, 25.10.2005 at 10:56 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: > On Tuesday, 25.10.2005 at 11:36 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > The recommended (and only user friendly) way to build a 64bit kernel > > is a 64bit userland. > > > > For i386 users that means installing the existing 64bit kernel, create > > a 64bit chroot and compile the kernel in there. > > > > That way it all just magically works. > > That makes sense. The slight difficulty here is that the "existing" > 64-bit kernel, Debian stock package, kicks off a hardware conflict on my > machine with my nVidia card. > > Maybe I can just run it in non-graphical mode for long enough to build a > chroot and build a kernel in it. I guess that for *subsequent* kernel > rebuilds, this will be easier, since I'll have a running 64-bit kernel > :-)
This still doesn't seem to quite work.
Build environment:
Host system: running stock Debian kernel 2.6.8-11-amd64-k8
32-bit userspace
64-bit Sarge chroot
Sarge chroot: gcc 3.4
building kernel 2.6.12 from Debian source package
This build in the chroot works: I get kernel-image-2.6.12_+davee.1.0_amd64.deb
created
However, when I try to install this for the host system, this error
occurs:
# dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6.12_+davee.1.0_amd64.deb
dpkg: error processing kernel-image-2.6.12_+davee.1.0_amd64.deb (--install):
package architecture (amd64) does not match system (i386)
Errors were encountered while processing:
kernel-image-2.6.12_+davee.1.0_amd64.deb
The package info for my newly created kernel includes the following:
# dpkg -I kernel-image-2.6.12_+davee.1.0_amd64.deb
[...]
Architecture: amd64
However, the existing pre-packaged Debian kernel is different:
# apt-cache show kernel-image-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8
[...]
Architecture: i386
So, my built kernel has different characteristics from the pre-packaged
one, which may explain why I am having difficulties.
Can anyone shed any more light on this?
Cheers,
Dave.
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