32 bit kernel on 64 bit machine

[Graeme Russ]

Hi Krishna,

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 1:45 PM, er krishna <erkrishna at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Is it possible to boot the 64 bit machine through 32 bit compiled kernel ? I

Yes

> tried its compilation on fedora 16 64 bit and intel sandybridge 64 bit with
> following option:
>
>
> $ make ARCH=i386 menuconfig
>
> $ make ARCH=i386 –j4
>
>
> but it failed to boot. Any suggestion if it can be done by any way.

You cannot use a 32-bit kernel with 64-bit user-space

Regards,

Graeme