Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2014 14:06:51 -0700 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: d@delphij.net, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading an i386 machine from amd64. Message-ID: <538B95EB.7070806@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <538B9158.5040409@delphij.net> References: <538B61EC.9000403@mu.org> <538B7778.3040205@freebsd.org> <538B9158.5040409@delphij.net>
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On 06/01/14 13:47, Xin Li wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 6/1/14, 11:56 AM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: >> On 06/01/14 10:25, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >>> Hello hackers. >>> >>> Is there a way to build on amd64 and then mount over nfs the >>> build and src and installworld from an i386 machine? >>> >>> The problem seems to be that "install" and "strip" and etc are >>> built as amd64 binaries so that the installworld will fail. >>> >>> Below I have a solution I was going to do a blog post about, but >>> then realized maybe I'd be leading people down the wrong path. >>> >>> Can someone verify that I need to use rsync as opposed to >>> installworld for this to work? >> Usually the strategy is to update the kernel first, since you can >> use an amd64 kernel with i386 world. Then you reboot, then replace >> world. > That will not work well about a year ago and I don't think things have > been improved since then. > > The biggest problem was that some system management API (e.g. for use > with ifconfig(8) or dhclient(8) I don't remember the details) do not > have proper 32-bit ABI implementations. It would be great if we can > have them fixed though. > Huh. It works great on PowerPC with 64-bit kernels and 32-bit worlds -- has for years. I assumed i386 would be the same way. In any case, I guess it's enough to get into single user mode and run installworld? -Nathan
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