[arch] booting with old kernels

[Thomas Bächler]

Dimitrios Apostolou schrieb:
> Another issue which I haven't yet found out why it happens is probably 
> the greatest obstacle. All binaries require at least kernel 2.6.6 to run:
> 
> $ file /bin/bash
> /bin/bash: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for 
> GNU/Linux 2.6.6, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
> 
> While on another linux distro (which also uses kernel 2.6):
> 
> $ file /bin/bash
> /bin/bash: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for 
> GNU/Linux 2.0.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 
> 2.0.0, stripped
> 
> 
> Anybody knows why that happens? Is it because of binutils version used 
> to link the binaries perhaps?

That happened the same time we switched to a linux 2.6-only glibc.
binutils could be right, but it could also be the glibc version you link
against.

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