From: Stefan Reinauer <stepan@coresystems.de>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: 64 Bit Support?
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:37:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070617093715.GA18112@coresystems.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070617092639.GA14818@aragorn>
* Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com> [070617 11:26]:
> 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
Interesting would also be to boot pure 64bit kernels. I think some of
the BSDs have their bootloader switch to 64bit long mode, so the kernel
does not have to dot this anymore. Maybe grub could do the same thing.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-17 9:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2007-06-17 23:11 ` 64 Bit Support? David Broadfoot
2007-06-17 0:16 ` Jeroen Dekkers
2007-06-17 9:26 ` Robert Millan
2007-06-17 9:37 ` Stefan Reinauer [this message]
2007-06-17 11:03 ` Jeroen Dekkers
2007-06-17 11:24 ` Stefan Reinauer
2007-06-17 17:47 ` Constantine Kousoulos
2007-06-17 19:34 ` Andrei E. Warkentin
2007-06-17 19:29 ` Andrei E. Warkentin
2007-06-17 21:06 ` Jeroen Dekkers
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