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Hello, |
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I'm working on upgrading a very old Gentoo system for my work. |
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Some software is only running well in 2.4.x kernels, and when doing other |
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updates I inadvertently updated past glibc-2.3.5, and so now the 2.4 kernel |
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does not boot (Fatal error, kernel too old). Fortunately there is a 2.6 |
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kernel on the system so I can still boot. I should have been operating on a |
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no-nptl profile. |
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Although I stopped the upgrade not longer after upgrading glibc, attempting |
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to downgrading glibc is just about the worst thing I could do. But I don't |
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really know what other options there are, and I've been Googling for hours |
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and hours and no solutions. |
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Is there any known workaround for booting a 2.4 kernel on a system with |
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glibc-2.9 installed? I thought perhaps if there is a way to re-install |
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glibc without nptl (assuming linuxthreads are still around in glibc-2.9) |
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then it might work, but not sure how to do that. |
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I'm very sad right now. |
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Regards, |
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daid |
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