Ken Moffat wrote: > 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! > > > That was exactly it, It may have been one of Joe's post that sent me down the path though, I don't remember for certain. I had to build grub-static on a 32 bit host, move it to the 64-bit system and include ia32 compatibility in the kernel. Not ideal, by any stretch, but it worked.
I was just looking at what Debian is doing, they build static, and it appears they may be have a trick for compiling on a x86_64 host but there are references to an i686 version of libc-dev as a build dependency. I'm at a Windows box right now so I was just quickly poking through their diff. They did recommend moving to grub2 for 64-bit systems, but that's become much more than just a boot loader. JH wrote: >> Help is always welcome. Point taken, things are stirring around here again. I've watched the lists religiously since just before the GCC4.0 transition, but haven't had much time to invest or even touch my own LFS boxes lately. Hopefully I can find a way to contribute as the new direction unfolds. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
