[Techtalk] NFS Booting from LILO

[Yaroslav Fedevych]

MMP - Barb Fox wrote:
> 
> Looking for more hints on what you mean.
> If I chroot to an NFS partition, the running linux is still the "old 
> one".  The versions won't be compatible between my kernel and 
> executables and I'd expect core dumps left and right.  If I manage to 
> format the hard drive, I'm afraid I won't get enough working to build a 
> new kernel and re-install a boot loader on the hard drive, then I'm left 
> with no way (not even NFS) to get information into the machine.  linux 
> is pretty particular that installation programs must match the exact 
> kernel that you "boot" with, in my experience.  If I even use a boot.iso 
> from RH 9.0 with Install disks for RH"9.1"(even though it's listed as 
> 9.0), it won't run the installer, for example.
> 

Nope. The kernel has (almost) nothing to do with the executables, it's 
libraries issue that matters. But I have successfully chrooted from ol' 
good tomsrtbt (on a floppy, kernel 2.2.16 and libc 5) to a partition 
with distro which used 2.4.9 and glibc 2.1. Everything danced okay.