Hi Krishna, On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 1:45 PM, er krishna <erkrishna@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi All, > > Is it possible to boot the 64 bit machine through 32 bit compiled kernel ? I Yes > tried its compilation on fedora 16 64 bit and intel sandybridge 64 bit with > following option: > > > $ make ARCH=i386 menuconfig > > $ make ARCH=i386 –j4 > > > but it failed to boot. Any suggestion if it can be done by any way. You cannot use a 32-bit kernel with 64-bit user-space Regards, Graeme _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies