At Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:37:15 +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > > * Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [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.
To enable long mode you have to enable paging and I don't think the bootloader should be doing things like that. I also don't see any problems with the OS enabling long mode. Jeroen Dekkers _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
