Re: how to compile i386 kernel on amd64 in chroot-ia32?
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 02:26:39PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Emmanuel Fleury <emmanuel.fleury@labri.fr> writes:
>
> > mons wrote:
> >> Hi.
> >> I want to compile a kernel for my other computer. I have a ia32 chrooted
> >> enviroment. I tried to compile it but when I do make menuconfig i
> >> allways have to choose only ia64 kernels.
>
> I highly doubt that. ia64 is not amd64 but completly different.
>
> >> What shoud I change in chroot32 enviroment to make ia32 kernels?
> >> Please, wrote it that so noob could understand. (I always create kernel
> >> making make menuconfig, dpkg-make... now I have no idea what should I
> >> do...)
> >
> >
> > You should do in the following way:
> >
> > 1) Save your .config (if you need it)
> > 2) make mrproper
> > 3) make ARCH=i386 menuconfig
> > 4) ...configure your kernel...
> > 5) make ARCH=i386 (I'm not sure that the 'ARCH=i386' is needed here)
> >
> > And this should build an i386 kernel.
> >
> > Regards
>
> Just use make-kpkg.
Or just run linux32 chroot .... and it will automatically think the
system is i686 rather than x86_64, and all the kernel make issues go
away.
Len Sorensen
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