Re: [PATCH] Fix for configure on x86_64 (Was: Re: [patch] Fix for building correct code on i386-pc (CVS-HEAD))

2006-06-01 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Wednesday 31 May 2006 23:00, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > It's actually a necessary feature for GRUB on amd64. On amd64 you have > 64-bit executables but GRUB will run in 32-bit mode. > > When trying to compile on amd64 I already ran into some problems > related to that. First of all on amd64 all bin

Re: configure host and target

2006-06-01 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Wednesday 31 May 2006 10:59, Tomáš Ebenlendr wrote: > So if I understand it correctly: > Grub & modules (i.e., everything that is run w/o OS) is target. Yes. > Grub-emu (i.e., everythhing that is run in some OS) is host. Not really. grub-emu is a debugging tool, so, strictly speaking, it

Re: grub-mkimage skipped by "make install"

2006-06-01 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Wednesday 31 May 2006 07:27, Adam Nielsen wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm just attempting to switch from LILO to GRUB, and after running > "make install" and trying to figure out what to do next from the old > docs (I can't find anything that explains roughly how to install > GRUB2, so I could be doing

Re: Initrd file not loaded

2006-06-01 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Wednesday 31 May 2006 03:18, Jesús Velazquez wrote: > We are trying to use Grub2 for booting RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 update 2 > on Xeon Platforms. But, we found that the initrd file is not loaded by grub > and the kernel can't mount /. The linux kernel doesn't recognize the boot > disk and It