Matthew Burgess wrote: > On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:34:31 -0500, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The latest version of e2fsprogs now passes all tests on LFS-6.5-64. > > Good news! Out of interest, which boot loader are you using on your 64-bit > machine?
The host, ubuntu, installed grub-0.97. I didn't feel I needed to change that. However, I did move it off to a separate partition so all instances can access the same /boot. The boot loader is not linked to any libraries. The interface to it does use libraries, but that shouldn't make any difference. What you fundamentally have is: stage1 <fs>_stage1_5 stage2 None of these are dynamic. stage1 is 512 bytes long and only determines which stage1_5 to load, loads it, and then runs it. The 1_5 stage knows enough about the fs to read a file into memory. stage2 provides the user interface upon boot. From a 64 bit system, we'd need to use cross compile techniques for these files so they don't try to use 64-bit addresses. The /usr/sbin/grub file needs to be able to run using 64-bits, but it just manipulates the files above and the 32 or 64 bit instructions shouldn't make any difference. Now this is all theoretical. I know others have tried and it doesn't work. It's too bad they try to do too much with grub2. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
