On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 11:51:29 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 19:28:41 +0100, Steve Harris > <s.w.harris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 10:09:41 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > So, the question at hand is why should the same kernel, built under > > > two different distro's, but run on the same machine, produce different > > > results. It's likely either what the compiler flags were, or what the > > > libraries were, or what was running in the background. (So I think...) > > > > Have you tried just booting the planet built kernel under gentoo? > > > > - Steve > > > > Steve, > I have not been that bold. would it work? At a minimum I'm fairly > sure that glibc and gcc itself are different versions. Right or wrong > my Gentoo box is updated almost daily to whatever the Gentoo gods > consider 'stable', which is not as stable as you and I would > necessarily call stable. Still, it's an interesting idea. Whatwoudl I > drage over? The kernel binary and all of /lib/modules/this-kernel? I /think/ it might work, yes, the kernel doesnt link against libc (or anything else for that matter), so I dont think compatibility is an issue. The /boot/* stuff would be needed and /lib/modules, but I think thats enough. Whats the worst that could happen ;) > Cheers & a happy Sunday to you, Happy sunday to you too, and good luck if you try it :) - Steve
