Building a 32 bit kernel on a 64 bit system [solved]

Tony0945 · Last edited by Tony0945 on Sat Dec 13, 2008 10:48 am; edited 1 time in total

I'm trying to build a Pentium III system in a chroot environment on my AMD64 X2 system, because it's a whole lot faster than using the ancient Pentium III. I followed the installation doc steps and everything looks good, all the emerges use -march=PentiumIII. However, when trying to build the kernel, both genkernel and make menuconfig only give me x86_64 architecture choices. /usr/share/genkernel/x86/kernel-config-2.6 looks correct and I tried giving the explicit path to genkernel :
genkernel --menuconfig --kernel-config=/usr/share/genkernel/x86/kernel-config-2.6 all

Didn't work. Relevant lines of the config file are:

#
# Automatically generated make config: don't edit
# Linux kernel version: 2.6.24-gentoo-r4
# Thu Apr 17 08:21:12 2008
#
# CONFIG_64BIT is not set
CONFIG_X86_32=y
# CONFIG_X86_64 is not set
CONFIG_X86=y

But I only get 64 bit choices from menuconfig. There used to be a wiki article about building in a chroot32 environment, but it was lost with the wiki.

Please, how do I do this?

poly_poly-man · Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 3:31 am Post subject:

make ARCH=i386 menuconfig
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