Eliot Blennerhassett wrote:
Hi Suse experts,
I'm wondering if it is possible to 'dual boot' 32 and 64 bit kernels using a
single distro install (i.e. not dual boot the whole distro on different
partitions, but just have 2 kernels to select from in the Grub menu.
or is this the way of madness??? and I should install 32 and 64 bit versions
as separate OSes?
If so, how would I go about installing the 32 bit kernel using Yast, from an
x86_64 install. The package manager only shows me 64 bit kernels.
Obviously I have the kernel source as a last resort...
thanks
I am not quite sure why you are trying to do this. 64-bit kernels are
usually able to run 32-bit applications. The only reason why not to use
it is having a 32-bit processor which you do not have. I you want to use
32-bit applications you can do so on SUSE without changing anything.
They used to not symlink /lib to /lib64. They might have changed that
with version 10.0 though. I they did or if you want to do the same thing
in most other distributions you need to create a chroot with 32-bit
libraries.
Hope that helps.
Robert J. C. Himmelmann
