On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 03:38:29PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > You are mistaken. The amd64 kernel has the 32bit emulation layer > compiled in so it is fully capable of running an i386 linux > installation. You can also install ia32-libs and the (not quite > perfected) ia32-libs-openoffice.org and openoffice.org debs from > /openoffice to run the 32bit OO under pure64. Other programs run just > as well but if you have a bunch of them better use a complete 32bit > chroot.
Thanks for the hint, that works great, even IDL is working! I am using the i386 installation as chroot, very impressing. Now do I really have to give that box to the new postdoc... > The sata is known to make problems with the mkinitrd and bugs have > been filed about it. If that matches your problem is hard to > tell. Have you tried building a custom kernel without initrd and the > scsi sata enabled (instead of ide sata as 2.6.6 had)? Yes, after I found the right drivers to include, it works without as well as with initrd. Thanks, Christian
