On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 09:40:03PM +0200, Matthias Saou wrote: > Doing it with yum or even rpm seems unfortunately pretty much > impossible, since x86_64 stuff won't install/run when still running an > x86, so scriplets would fail miserably. Too bad, since forcing a > minimal set of 64bit packages on the machine and rebooting it to > continue the procedure could have been nice. It is possible to run an x86 userland with a x86_64 kernel (modulo random bugs in 32-bit compatibility of ioctls, etc.); several LiveCDs offer that option. I don't know whether the Fedora mkinitrd will get things right though; the initramfs might need to be constructed by hand, or copied from a similar machine. Also, there might be problems in the Fedora rc.sysinit. In any case, cd / && rpm2cpio kernel-*.x86_64.rpm | cpio -idum /sbin/new-kernel-pkg ... might do the trick. Then one can reboot into the 64-bit kernel. It makes sense to sort out any issues in QEMU before trying it on real (and remote!) hardware. :-) Regards, Bill Rugolsky -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
