Jim Gifford wrote:
I was having this problem for a while, I've been working with the Silo
maintainer for a few weeks now, but there is no way to build a 64 bit
silo. Colo for the raq2 MIPS and Grub, also seem to have this problem.
I guess a 32 Bit loader is the unwritten law for bootloaders.
I can see your point in that you are trying to support several different
architectures, and I have only built lilo on an x86_64 system, so I have
a limited view, but if anyone wants to deviate, lilo builds and boots
fine on an x86_64 pure 64 bit system. And I am no expert but I think
lilo starts in 16 bit and switches to 32 bit so you are probably right
about limiting bootloaders to 32 bit. Maybe because it uses so much
assembly it doesn't need to be tied to glibc, so it builds easily on 32
or 64 bit systems?
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