[K12OSN] depmod in chroot?

[Jomegat]

On 09/08/2011 09:58 AM, Jeff Siddall wrote:
> I have an x86_64 server with i686 clients. I run the chroot inside
> linux32 which does the trick for most things architecture related.
>
> However, I tried compiling and installing a chroot kernel module and had
> problems. Looks like autoconfig uses `uname -r` in a number of places
> and and of course that is the one place that still references x86_64. I
> was able to manually hack the Makefile and got the module compiled.
> However, the install process runs depmod -a and it is still looking for
> an x86_64 folder which of course does not exist.
>
> Any ideas how to get an i686 chroot kernel module installed on an x86_64
> server?

Do this as root:
cd /opt/ltsp/i386
setarch i386 chroot .
uname -a

That should now say i686 rather than x86_64.
Next you'll need to:
mount /proc

Then you can yum install whatever you want.  Be sure to umount /proc 
before exiting the chroot shell:

umount /proc
exit

If yum doesn't work, try copying /etc/resolv.conf to /opt/ltsp/i386/etc 
before the setarch step.

This page:
https://fedorahosted.org/k12linux/wiki/LocalAppsSupport
shows an example of using setarch, but it leaves off the ever-important 
/etc/resolv.conf and more importantly, the mount /proc steps.

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