Changeset bd89ba4

Timestamp:

Sep 10, 2006, 8:39:07 PM (18 years ago)

Author:

Chris Staub <chris@…>

Children:

1d0c3c6

Parents:

aa0290f3

Message:

Added Host System Requirements page and added more info to Boot/Chroot? page

Files:

• introduction/common/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• prologue/common/hostreqs.xml (added)
• prologue/preface.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• temp-system/common/choose.xml (modified) (1 diff)

introduction/common/changelog.xml

@@ -49 +49 @@
            More details at http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/1876.</para>
         </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[Chris] - Added Host System Requiremets page, and added more
+          info to the "To Boot or Chroot?" page about needing a 2.6.x Linux
+          kernel to chroot.</para>
+        </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
     </listitem>

prologue/preface.xml

@@ -15 +15 @@
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="common/audience.xml"/>
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="common/prerequisites.xml"/>
+  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="common/hostreqs.xml"/>
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="common/typography.xml"/>
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="common/organization.xml"/>

temp-system/common/choose.xml

@@ -34 +34 @@
   method.</para>
 
+  <para>To chroot, you will also need a Linux Kernel-2.6.x (having been
+  compiled with GCC-3.0 or greater). The reason for the kernel version
+  requirement is that thread-local
+  storage support in Binutils will not be built and
+  the Native POSIX Threading Library (NPTL) test suite will segfault if
+  the host's kernel isn't at least a 2.6.x version compiled with a 3.0 or
+  later release of GCC.</para>
+
+  <para>To check your kernel version, run <command>cat /proc/version</command>
+  - if it does not say that you are running a 2.6.2 or later Linux kernel,
+  compiled with GCC 3.0 or later, you cannot chroot.</para>
+
   <para os="e">For the boot method, follow <xref linkend="chapter-boot"/>.</para>