[Techtalk] NFS Booting from LILO
Yaroslav Fedevych
jaroslawfd at ukrpost.net
Wed Jan 14 19:29:39 EST 2004
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.
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