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Re: 64 Bit Support?
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Robert Millan |
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Re: 64 Bit Support? |
Date: |
Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:26:39 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
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
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