Re: No amd64 kernels on i386 arch past 3.16.0-4?

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

On 2016-02-08 11:32 -0600, Mark Kamichoff wrote:

> For awhile I've been able to install 64-bit versions of recent kernels
> on Debian i386 installations, to reap the benefits of a 64-bit kernel
> without having to do a reinstall.  This gives me a 64-bit kernel and a
> 32-bit userland.  I've a flurry of i386 VMs that moved hypervisors and
> now support 64-bit instructions, but I haven't wanted to reinstall them
> all :)
>
> However, I haven't seen any amd64 kernels past 3.16.0-4 for i386.  All
> of the 4.x kernels are 32-bit:

64-bit kernels are no longer built on i386, you need to enable amd64 as a
foreign architecture if you want them:

# dpkg --add-architecture amd64
# apt-get update
# apt-get install linux-image-amd64:amd64

Cheers,
       Sven