[Clfs-dev] [CLFS-DEV] Version SVN-20081026-x86 -- chroot fails

[Joe Ciccone]

John Doe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm building an i686 from a Gentoo x86-64 host and I can't enter
> chroot. Its fails with "FATAL: Kernel too old" I suspect this is
> because CLFS glibc is a newer version then the host system.
>
> Is there any dirty workaround that will let me use the chroot method?
>
> /lib/libc.so.6 | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f1-7
> GNU C Library stable release version 2.6.1,
>
> Also this isn't mentioned in the "Host System Requirements" section.
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It has nothing to do with the glibc version on the host. It has
everything todo with the kernel version. You need a kernel atleast
2.6.0. See the following page:

http://cross-lfs.org/view/svn/x86/temp-system/choose.html

2.4 Kernel's dont support NPTL and we dont build linuxthreads.