On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 04:59:10PM -0700, Rod Waldren wrote: > > > Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > > The jh branch doesn't > > even yet cover a proper boot loader. Also, you aren't guaranteed help if > > you run into trouble. > > > > > Just to satisfy my curiosity. Is there any reason not to just build a > 32-bit static grub with "Pure64"? I realize it isn't pure at that point > but it's only to kick things off.
From memory, Joe was very keen on fixing grub to build on pure64 x86_64, but it can't be done (it uses 32-bit libs for the grub shell, I think). The point is that pure64 doesn't have any 32-bit libraries (nor a 32-bit toolchain). > I think I found the idea on the CLFS > lists, I just googled and found alot of references to Debian, Gentoo and > others using this method at least at some time for their AMD64 distro. They are all binary distros (even gentoo, at least for the things they ship as binary). You can perhaps build a static grub on a different i686 or multilib box, copy it over, and copy the required files to /boot. If it works, you are now reliant on binary software that you can't rebuild on that system! ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
