On Tuesday 26 December 2006 11:46, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > On Mon, Dec 25, 2006 at 05:18:20PM -0500, > Christopher S. Aker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > a message of 9 lines which said: > > I'd try running a UML kernel that isn't a few years old, as 2.4-um > > hasn't been maintained for a long time. A 2.6-um kernel should run on > > that host just fine. > > No, it does not: > > FATAL kernel is too old > > (And I cannot change the host at will, only the guest.)
According to Nix, you're using binaries compiled on a more recent distribution: > > On Sunday 12 November 2006 21:38, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 11:53:36PM +0100, > >> Blaisorblade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > >> > >> a message of 34 lines which said: > >> > 2.6 kernels can run on 2.4 systems > >> > >> Each time I try, I get a "FATAL kernel is too old". > > > > Strange - that is only valid for a software using TLS. > > Nah, you can get that message from any glibc if the glibc was compiled > with --enable-kernel= requesting a later kernel than the one being used. I think that if on a recent distribution, which does not support Linux 2.4, you compile statically UML and run it, you'll get this error immediately. The problem would be that that UML is statically linked on a system whose glibc requires a 2.6 host. And it would likely affect even binaries of UML/2.4 kernels. -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can add them to my list! Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade Chiacchiera con i tuoi amici in tempo reale! http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/*http://it.messenger.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list User-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
