make install chooses wrong arch

[tripleHead]

Hello,

i haven't updated for a while and was still running a .29 kernel. After i updated udev and restarted the computer i noticed that udev doesn't work with such an old kernel. I started a live gentoo and installed a new kernel (not the genkernel). I also did an "make install". But the gentoo still refused to start. uname -a told me that i was still running an .29 kernel. I played around a bit and finally put the direkt pawth to the compiled kernel aka /usr/src/linux/arc/x86_64/bzImage. That worked and gentoo started.

After tha i changed to the kernel directory and did a new "make install". I noted a bzImage out of ./arch/x86 (without 64) was copied.

My questions are:
- Why is there a bzImage of the old kernel in x86? I always had the x86_64 architecture?
- Why does make install choose the x86 arch?


Thank you!

[NeddySeagoon]

tripleHead,

Around kernel 2.6.25 the i386 and x86_64 kernel trees were merged into x86.
At that time, arch/i386 and arch/x86_64 became symlinks to the merged source in x86.

The kernel configuration determines what sort of kernel you get. Your uname -a output will still show x86_64
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NeddySeagoon

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[tripleHead]

Thank you. Everything works fine now and the topic looks a little bit clearer now.