[arch-dev-public] Punishment needed for not building in a chroot
Allan McRae
allan at archlinux.org
Sun Dec 6 22:00:47 EST 2009
Paul Mattal wrote:
> I should have another fast x86_64 build box at my disposal soon. My
> laptop is still running i686, which I sometimes still need for some
> things. Can I switch *just* to the x86_64 kernel but leave the rest
> i686? Then I could use it to build both. This somehow seems like a bad
> idea, but maybe that's just because I'm too tired at the moment to think
> through all the possible bad things that could happen.
I run the x86_64 kernel on i686:
http://allanmcrae.com/2009/06/using-an-x86_64-kernel-on-an-i686-userland/
You will also need (at least) aufs2 packages from x86_64:
> pacman -Slq kernel64
aufs2
aufs2-util
kernel26
kernel26-firmware
It does have its issues...
Allan
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