Hello, I'm working on upgrading a very old Gentoo system for my work.
Some software is only running well in 2.4.x kernels, and when doing other updates I inadvertently updated past glibc-2.3.5, and so now the 2.4 kernel does not boot (Fatal error, kernel too old). Fortunately there is a 2.6 kernel on the system so I can still boot. I should have been operating on a no-nptl profile. Although I stopped the upgrade not longer after upgrading glibc, attempting to downgrading glibc is just about the worst thing I could do. But I don't really know what other options there are, and I've been Googling for hours and hours and no solutions. Is there any known workaround for booting a 2.4 kernel on a system with glibc-2.9 installed? I thought perhaps if there is a way to re-install glibc without nptl (assuming linuxthreads are still around in glibc-2.9) then it might work, but not sure how to do that. I'm very sad right now. Regards, daid
