Re: [LUG] 64-bit Linux remote boot

[Alex Charrett <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting Andrew Rogers:

> I need to compile a 64-bit Linux kernel using a compiler on a 32-bit 
> machine. The 64-bit machine will be remote boot and has no drives hence 
> I can't use a 64-bit installation.
>
> Can anyone suggest a good source of info on compiling 64-bit kernels?

I'd suggest that compiling the kernel itself should be fairly straight forward 
once you've set up a cross compiler on your 32 bit machine for builing 64 bit 
binaries.

This looks like a reasonable start (although having never done it I can't vouch 
for it's sanity):
http://linux.bytesex.org/cross-compiler.html

Alex.

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