Re: [gentoo-user] Chroot to new environment complains about kernel

[Mark Shields]

On 12/14/06, Bertram Scharpf <lists@×××××××××××××××.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I try to chroot to a brand new environment, freshly unpacked
> from stage 3:
>
>   kyle # chroot /mnt/hdb/ /bin/bash
>   FATAL: kernel too old
>   kyle # uname -a
>   Linux kyle 2.6.8-3-686 #1 Tue Dec 5 21:26:38 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> After that, I unpacked stage 1. The boostrap worked fine until
> during compilation of glibc a command ".././scripts/mkinstalldirs"
> stoped with (yes!): "FATAL: kernel too old".
>
> An strace of the chroot command ends with the uname function
> call yielding the above results and returning 0. Then, the
> message is output and exit is called.
>
> Google did not give me any hints.
>
> Thanks in advance for any hints.
>
> Bertram
>
>
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> Bertram Scharpf
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>
This happens when you try to chroot to a system that has a much newer kernel
than the one you're running.  The solution is to use a newer gentoo boot cd.

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- Mark Shields