On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 03:15:13PM +0200, Julio Meca Hansen wrote: > > > > Why are you compiling GRUB in 64-bit mode then? It's not supported yet. > > > > Doesn't the build system automaticaly ressort to 32-bit build for you? > > > > You leave me quite 'impressed' in the desillusional way haha but it's > ok, but try to understand my point of view for a moment... > > I have a 64bit capable machine so I would like to have a 64bit system, > the previous time I built my 64bit system, used grub-0.97 because I > actually had a 32bit installation in another partition, so it did the > trick for me, but if I'm going for the *absolute* way I can't have a > 32bit bootloader but a 64bit one, that's the reason I want to compile > grub2 for 64bit mode and you have to take into account my toolchain is > non-multilib (at least that's what suggests the installation method), so > I cannot produce any kind of 32bit code, but from the console output is > like I *almost* managed to get it done, just this stubs-32.h > non-existent reference blew my attempt... > > And in the installation instructions I posted... they belong to the CLFS > Trac, and if the author (Joe Ciccone) stands grub2 can be compiled with > the given options, at least we can confirm that grub2 actually > *compiles* in pure 64bit mode, but not cvs grub2, that's what I asked > what could I do with this error, just that... :(
Most of GRUB 2 compiles (and works) in 64-bit mode. See grub-emu for example. > Isn't really any solution to this? As I said, if you can't find the reason for this problem, maybe a regression test can help. There can be other ways to find it, of course, but that's an easy one if you don't know where to look. -- Robert Millan <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
