Rod Waldren wrote: > 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. 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. > > I did this with an old CLFS Pure64 build ages ago, that really just > followed LFS and pulled patches from CLFS when needed, resulting in a > very similar base system to the JH branch. Unfortunately it was > destined to be a Myth-box and ran into problems with 32-bit binary only > codecs (too many work arounds required) so I scraped it in favor of a > 32-bit build.
The only reason why the branch doesn't have a boot loader like what you suggest is because I haven't gotten around to it yet. :) I was actually thinking of re-writing the whole boot loader section and have it be more of an 'exercise for the reader', offering a number of suggestions about the various options available for various architectures. Help is always welcome. ;) -- JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
