Okay, because I think that Ubuntu 10.10 with Compiz, the cube, wobbly windows and Gnome 2.x is the epitome of the Linux experience, I've given up on more recent stuff, and installed 10.10 -- 32-bit -- on my laptop. But I'm a total btrfs whore, so I installed that (aside from my /boot partition). Buuut... btrfs on whatever 10.10's kernel is is kinda flaky; blew up the FS the first time I tried to create a subvolume. So I booted a (very) recent random distro, 64-bit, with a 3.2 kernel, specifically because 3.2 has some magic in it to help with unmountable btrfs drives. Worked like a champ. Then, still in my 64-bit OS, I downloaded a 3.3 kernel off kernel.org. Since my base OS -- Ubuntu 10.10, as I installed it -- is 32-bit, I *wanted* to do a make ARCH=i386 bzImage But... i386 seems to be missing as a possible architecture. The closest I could find was x86. But this concerned me, because x86_64's bzImage is a soft link to x86's. Anyway, "What the hell," I thought, and compiled it. Installed it. Booted it. And it works great! Until I went to install Chrome. Chrome said, "You're running a 64-bit OS; here's your 64-bit version." I tried installing that, and no soup. 32-bit version installed fine. So then I glanced at "uname -a":
Linux galadriel 3.3.0 #2 SMP Wed Apr 4 13:04:22 EDT 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux Am I running a 64-bit kernel on a 32-bit OS? Bwah? -Ken _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/