RE: amd64 kernel on i386 sarge system

["Brendan Hack" <brendan.hack@luminova.net>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: matt@lackof.org [mailto:matt@lackof.org] On Behalf Of Matt Taggart
> Sent: 11 October 2005 23:14
> To: Brendan Hack
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org; debian-kernel@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: amd64 kernel on i386 sarge system
> 
> 
> "Brendan Hack" writes...
> 
> > Can
> > someone please ease my mind and let me know how safe it is to switch
> kernels
> > like this. I have plenty of experience messing around with kernels,
> > compiling my own and setting up systems which boot to different kernel
> > versions so can set this up no problems but just want to make sure that
> > I won't have any compatibility issues when downgrading from the amd64
> > kernel to the k7. Can anyone see any issues with doing this?
> 
> Which userspace are you using i386 or amd64? If the former then you should
> have no problems, if the latter it won't work at all.
> 
> The main way to install amd64 for quite a while was "pure64" meaning both
> an
> amd64 kernel and full amd64 userspace. But more recently I think it's been
> possible to install i386 and then just upgrade the kernel. Use file(1) to
> check some of the system commands and see what type they are, or look at
> sources.list to see where it's pointing.
> 


Thank Matt, that's exactly the reassurance I was hoping for.  I am using
i386 userspace. Was initially a bit confused as why we had installed the
i386 userspace and not gone with a full 64 bit install but it's ended up
being a good thing.

Thanks

Brendan