From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1J4Klx-0001v4-Tj for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:33:01 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J4Klw-0001uH-SU for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:33:00 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J4Klv-0001tm-Am for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:33:00 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J4Klv-0001tj-5B for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:32:59 -0500 Received: from c60.cesmail.net ([216.154.195.49]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J4Klu-0001RZ-TS for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:32:59 -0500 Received: from unknown (HELO relay.cesmail.net) ([192.168.1.81]) by c60.cesmail.net with ESMTP; 17 Dec 2007 13:32:57 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.21] (static-72-92-88-10.phlapa.fios.verizon.net [72.92.88.10]) by relay.cesmail.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ED28618FE1; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:32:57 -0500 (EST) From: Pavel Roskin To: The development of GRUB 2 In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:32:56 -0500 Message-Id: <1197916376.2541.8.camel@dv> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.2 (2.12.2-2.fc8) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Cc: Steven Yi Subject: Re: Grub on x86_64 crash? X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:33:01 -0000 On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 05:56 +0000, Steven Yi wrote: > by > http://cross-lfs.org/view/svn/x86_64-64/boot/building-a-bootloader.html : > > On x86 and x86_64 (multilib) architectures, the preferred bootloader > is GRUB. Unfortunately, GRUB doesn't work on x86_64 Pure64 - the > stage2 files can be correctly built as 32-bit, but the grub shell is a > 64-bit program, and tries to execute some of the stage2 routines - > this results in a segmentation fault. Therefore, in the final system > we use Lilo as the bootloader. > > How is it going on now? GRUB 2 it should be presumed working unless there is specific evidence of the problem, including the version number and the details of the crash. It's not worth my time to verify unspecific bugreports, but if you care about that, perhaps you should do the checking. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin