Re: fai and 64 bit

[Rudy Gevaert]

Michael Tautschnig wrote:
Hi,

These are my first steps in 64bit land and have a problem with setting 
up FAI

I've installed a 64 bit kernel on a 32 bit system (Dell PE1850).  I then 
created a 64 bit chroot on the system.  In the chroot I then compiled a 
64 bit kernel.

In the same chroot I have then created a fai nfsroot with with that kernel.

Now when booting from that nfsroot it stops on the following error:

request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-464c

I'm using a 2.6.16.20 kernel in that nfsroot.

What can I do to solve this problem?


What about this thread:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2004/01/msg00129.html

The thread suggests:

- ... another module was necessary (System V IPC in my case) ...
- Kernel support for ELF binaries
- IA32 bit emulation
=> are all compiled in my kernel

If I install that kernel on an other 64 bit system, it boots fine.  Only 
when it's installed in the FAI nfsroot it doesn't work.

I'm going to try this now
# function make() { /usr/bin/make ARCH="x86_64" HOSTCC="gcc -m32" "$@"; }
# export -f make
# export UNAME_MACHINE="x86_64"

I'll post my results...



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