Re: [uml-user] Run 2.6 kernel on 2.4 host

[Vladimir \Equidamoid\ S. <equ...@gm...>]

If only I could update the kernel...
Maybe there is some workaround to make it work?


On 09.02.2015 05:54 , Enjoy Mindful wrote:
> Is it possible to build and run 2.6 on 2.4? What environment is
> required? What are the limitations if any?
>
> The answer depends. As you said, you were trying to run 2.6 on 2.4.18. I
> think that kernel is too old to run 2.4 uml kernel. So, it can't run 2.6
> kernel.
>
> I tried to run old 2.4 uml kernel on redhat-9 (oh, what an old release)
> virtual machine. It turn out that the original kernel, kernel-t,
> is too old to run 2.4 kernel. There is a bug in that kernel make it
> impossible to run any uml kernel. So, after dig in google, I update the
> kernel to 2.4.25. It works as expected.
>
> I managed to boot kernel-2.6.11 on 2.4.25, but it failed to login. It
> may because the root filesystem is too old.
>
> thanks
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 2:17 AM, Vladimir "Equidamoid" Shapranov
> <equ...@gm... <mailto:equ...@gm...>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     I need to run some recent software on a legacy server running 2.4.18
>     kernel. Sadly it is not possible to rebuild the sotware to run natively
>     with that kernel (our code requires boost, boost requires gcc 4.5+,
>     gcc4.5+ doesn't like old glibc and recent glibc doesnt build for 2.4
>     kernel).
>     So I'm trying to run UML 2.6 kernel on 2.4 system. I tried prebuilt
>     2.6.27 kernel from (http://uml.devloop.org.uk/kernels.html) but it
>     refused to run on 2.4 ("ERROR: kernel too old"). Next, I tried to build
>     it on the Debian Woody VM with gcc 2.95 & 3.4 and glibc 2.2 but got
>     dozens of errors.
>     Is it possible to build and run 2.6 on 2.4? What environment is
>     required? What are the limitations if any?
>
>     Thank you!
>
>
>     --
>     Best regards,
>     Vladimir
>
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Best regards,
Vladimir