From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Hzr0m-0000la-BA for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 05:25:32 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hzr0k-0000kz-G5 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 05:25:30 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hzr0j-0000kV-5u for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 05:25:29 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hzr0j-0000kQ-2R for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 05:25:29 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hzr0i-0002dU-NU for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 05:25:28 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.6] (helo=aragorn) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Hzr0f-0008Eo-F7 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:25:25 +0200 Received: from rmh by aragorn with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Hzr1r-0003ru-9e for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:26:39 +0200 Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:26:39 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20070617092639.GA14818@aragorn> References: <20070616160553.C62C1BFD7@mail.lfs-matrix.net> <4675BFB0.4010902@cross-lfs.org> <87d4zvjuza.wl@dekkers.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87d4zvjuza.wl@dekkers.cx> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Microsoft discourages use of Outlook. X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: 64 Bit Support? 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: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 09:25:30 -0000 On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 02:16:41AM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > At Sun, 17 Jun 2007 17:11:44 -0600, > David Broadfoot wrote: > > I am wondering if there is plans for Grub 2 to be able to be compiled > > and run in a 64 bit enviroment. I am a part of the Cross-LFS Dev. team, > > and Under the pure 64 bit system, we have to use a 32 static version of > > grub compiled on a 32 computer in order to get it to boot, or use > > *Cough* lilo. > > > > Thanks for your time > > It already works. You need to have a compiler that can generate 32-bit > code however, because the boot part of GRUB needs to be in 32-bit. We > currently also have a build dependency on 32-bit libc and liblzo. > > I'm using a pure 64-bit Debian system with 32-bit libc and liblzo > packages installed and that works fine. Debian sid needs more packages for biarch support. To be safe, I suggest: apt-get build-dep grub2 -- Robert Millan My spam trap is honeypot@aybabtu.com. Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list.