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From: Henning Schild <henning.schild@siemens.com>
To: Alexander Smirnov <asmirnov@ilbers.de>
Cc: isar-users <isar-users@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: Host with i686 kernel
Date: Wed, 2 May 2018 10:52:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180502105257.34308124@md1pvb1c.ad001.siemens.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <abe8292f-db3d-93ef-ae82-60adf28d1be4@ilbers.de>

Am Tue, 1 May 2018 21:19:19 +0300
schrieb Alexander Smirnov <asmirnov@ilbers.de>:

> Hi all,
> 
> I've faced with the problem building Isar on i686 host kernel. The
> amd64 configuration fails on debootstrap with error:
> 
>   - mount: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error
> 
> As I found, this error happened when debootstrap tries to run 
> '/bin/mount' in chroot. The issue is that there is no binfmt for
> x86_64.
> 
> I've found a binfmt config for AMD64:
> 
> http://seeblog.seenet.ca/2016/03/running-amd64-binaries-on-an-i386-linux-system/
> 
> But it works very unstable (possibly this is the reason why it's not 
> included in default package).
> 
> Conclusion: Isar can't build 64-bit systems on 32-bit host kernels.

I think that is OK, 32bit x86 is dead. To follow up one could open a
debian bug about the missing/broken binfmt and document that limitation
in Isar.

Henning

> Alex
> 


  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-02  8:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-01 18:19 Alexander Smirnov
2018-05-02  8:52 ` Henning Schild [this message]
2018-05-02  9:01   ` Jan Kiszka

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