On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, John Gay wrote:
1) Use Lilo, which can be built and run in 64 bit mode, along with nasm and
what ever else Lilo needs.
Nasm is no longer needed. Bin86 is the dependency.
2) Use grub, which only builds in 32 bit mode, but can still pass the system
over to the 64 bit Linux system.
Does it really make any difference? As far as I know, grub only runs in 32 bit
mode until control is passed to the 64 bit kernel, then everything else runs
in native 64 bit mode.
The processor starts in some sort of compatability mode, so no
difference.
Either way, once built properly, the system runs in native 64 bit mode, with
the 64 bit libs in /lib and 32 bit support libs in /lib32
That is the fun part. So far, nobody here has built lib32. Matt will
probably tell you that at the moment it's a herculean task to build even
lib/lib64 with gcc4.
Of course the trick is building the system properly (-;
At least you should have enough cpu power!
Ken
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