Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 07:47:56 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting a FreeBSD 5.4 amd64 kernel on root filesystem populated with i386 binaries Message-ID: <20050809124756.GA27425@over-yonder.net> In-Reply-To: <20050808201354.GH1936@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <42F7B9F1.4090004@palisadesys.com> <20050808201354.GH1936@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
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On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 01:13:54PM -0700 I heard the voice of Brooks Davis, and lo! it spake thus: > > I'm pretty sure it's not supported under 5.x. The i386 support just > isn't good enough. I'm not sure about 6.x. Support is supposed to > be a lot better there, but I don't recall any word of people testing > this so at that point I suspect not. I would suspect a jailed root > will work before a real root file system does. When I did a i386->amd64 conversion (because amd64 had no boot floppies *pout*), I temporarily hijacked my swap partition as a new temporary root. DESTDIR'd installworld, reboot, fiddle around in the loader to boot off the new partition, then do another DESTDIR installworld onto the real root and it was done. I couldn't get the i386 world to load right with the amd64 kernel; it seemed to bomb right around firing up init. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.
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