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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list. _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
