On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:01:44 +1200
Matthew Gregan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> At 2007-07-06T15:31:40+1200, Steve Holdoway wrote:
> > Anyone know how to chroot to a 64 bit boot partition from a 32 bit host?
> > I've just upgraded the motherboard/cpu/memory on this machine and it
> > crashes on boot. Pain... who needs it?
> 
> A 32-bit kernel can't execute 64-bit binaries natively, so you can't do it.
> 
> Cheers,
> -mjg
> -- 
> Matthew Gregan                     |/
>                                   /|                    [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Exactly what I thought - just wondered if anyone had a sneaky way round it.

This has become a really weird problem, and I'm suspecting it's a hardware 
problem now. It still crashes with a CentOS 5 64 bit boot disk. 

I've taken a previously working server, running CentOS 5 64-bit on an intel 
core duo. I've upgraded it with a new motherboard ( gigabyte GA-965P-S3 ), cpu 
( Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 ) and 2x2GB memory  ( Adata DDR2 533 ), as the old 
board would only take 2GB. It'll boot off any 32 bit live CD, but as soon as I 
try to boot a 64 bit one, it crashes - as usual the stack dump is mostly 
invisible except for the last page on the screen.

I've tried the momory both dual and sigle channel, replaced the cpu with the 
old working one, and the same thing happens every time. I haven't tried putting 
the old memory in, mind.

Has anyone else had similar problems? 

Cheers,

Steve

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