Hello Okay, well I'm not really that well versed to understand what you are saying.
However, I'd be eternally grateful if you were able to 'port' 32-bit FreeBSD for GRUB to 64-bit FreeBSD (for GRUB). Thanks in advance, Panarchy On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 9:50 PM, phcoder <phco...@gmail.com> wrote: > I haven't looked in depth yet, but it's a bit more. the loader switches to > amd64 and sets preliminary page translation > Bean wrote: >> >> On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 5:54 AM, Daniel Nebdal <dneb...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Bean wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Please try the btx loader in /boot/loader, which I believe to be >>>> 32-bit even in amd64 freebsd. The btx loader is an a.out executable, >>>> grurb2 has supported for it already. >>> >>> Ah, just noticed I replied to this before subscribing, so the copy to >>> the list bounced. >>> Let's try again. >>> >>> The BTX loader starts, yes - but the reason I'm using GRUB2 in the >>> first place is to skip it, >>> since it doesn't seem to support logical partitions. >> >> Hi, >> >> Oh, thanks for the information. The 32-bit bsd kernel is basically an >> elf image that needs a little address translation: >> >> physical address = virtual address & 0xFFFFFF >> >> I think the principle can be applied to 64-bit kernel as well, it >> shouldn't be difficult to add support for it. >> > > > -- > > Regards > Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel