On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 08:48:49AM -0700, Paul Rogers wrote: > Not to "beat a dead horse", but to document a solution for someone > else in this situation, getting from a 32-bit host to a new 64-bit > target, to find. > > > I think it is a very long time since anybody last mentioned grub- > > legacy. The details are so different that I would expect a lot of > > pain trying to mix versions of grub. > > > > Let's try to work out what you need to do: > > Actually it isn't too bad. On this box I still have my earlier > incarnation of LFS-6.6 (I think it is) with GRUB-1.97-2, which WILL > make a rescue floppy. I made one of those, and dd'ed it into a file > to include with my "distribution" cloning package, to be recreatable > as needed. >
Ah, 1.97 was the start of grub2. I haven't had a working floppy drive for more than 10 years - last time I tried, the available floppies were unreliable. You will probably also find that a 64-bit kernel won't fit on a floppy, but for now you are sorted. > Then I got the insight that I could separate it into two scripts! Lay > down all the 64-bit LFS tarballs on the 32-bit host, boot that as a 64- > bit system (no problem even for GRUB-1.97-2), then run all the BLFS > steps natively. I encountered no special problems this way. > > > > > Good luck! > > Thanks. With that special insight all the problems really disappeared. > > > > > ĸen > > -- > > Yes, you CAN fool most of the people some of the time. > > > > Are you perhaps refering to our Donald Trump, or your own Brexit > campaign? I would not dream of commenting on foreign politics on this list. ĸen -- Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard -- H.L. Mencken -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
