From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1HsFyC-0002Jy-To for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 May 2007 06:27:28 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HsFy9-0002IG-LW for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 May 2007 06:27:25 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HsFy9-0002I4-3P for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 May 2007 06:27:25 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HsFy8-0002I0-Rr for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 May 2007 06:27:24 -0400 Received: from neonescio.viaisn.org ([82.94.249.43]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HsFy8-00069d-DX for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 May 2007 06:27:24 -0400 Received: from dijkstra.dekkers.cx ([2001:960:7a0:0:213:d4ff:fe9c:2487] ident=Debian-exim) by neonescio.viaisn.org with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32 CV=0) (Exim 4.63 #1) id 1HsFy4-0000Be-7S for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 May 2007 12:27:20 +0200 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=dijkstra.dekkers.cx ident=jeroen) by dijkstra.dekkers.cx with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HsFy0-0003sw-Sb for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 May 2007 12:27:16 +0200 Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 12:27:16 +0200 Message-ID: <87iraesgsb.wl@dekkers.cx> From: Jeroen Dekkers To: The development of GRUB 2 In-Reply-To: <9f50a7a00705261744r51448922l5cd4bdab8eda65f7@mail.gmail.com> References: <465322F0.5020109@freemail.gr> <9f50a7a00705261614w45d6fa3dt96fb96102d33a1f4@mail.gmail.com> <87k5uvrtdt.wl@dekkers.cx> <9f50a7a00705261744r51448922l5cd4bdab8eda65f7@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.14.0 (Africa) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.8 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Shij=F2?=) APEL/10.7 Emacs/22.0.95 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: installing on x86_64 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, 27 May 2007 10:27:25 -0000 At Sat, 26 May 2007 19:44:09 -0500, Jerone Young wrote: > > Really..exactly waht distro and gcc version are you using. There is > still lack for _start with compiling 32-bit binaries using gcc x86-64. > I'm currently been testing on Fedora Core 7 beta and I see the problem > consistently (though I do need to update it some). Others have > reported the problem in the past also. What I do need to know is how > you are successfully compiling it . Is your gcc version less then 4.x > ? I'm using Debian, both gcc 4.1 and 4.2 works. Missing _start means that your compiler can't generate 32-bit programs. Test this first by compiling a simple test program (e.g. "int main (){return 0;}") using -m32. That probably doesn't result in a working executable either. Jeroen Dekkers