Dear Sir/Madam: I have an issue installing Debian 8 64 bit on a 32bit grub boot-loader on my Acer Aspire 5228 and I want to know how can I start a 64bit Kernel from a 32bit grub boot loader. Thanks.
I'm looking forward to hear from you, Parsa Samet. uname -a Linux richard-laptop 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.81-1 x86_64 GNU/Linux cat /etc/debian_version 7.11 aptitude show grub-pc Package: grub-pc State: installed Automatically installed: no Multi-Arch: foreign Version: 1.99-27+deb7u3 Priority: optional Section: admin Maintainer: GRUB Maintainers <pkg-grub-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org> Architecture: i386 Uncompressed Size: 488 k Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, grub-common, grub2-common (= 1.99-27+deb7u3), grub-pc-bin (= 1.99-27+deb7u3), ucf Conflicts: grub (< 0.97-54), grub-coreboot, grub-efi-amd64, grub-efi-ia32, grub-ieee1275, grub-legacy Replaces: grub, grub-common (<= 1.97~beta2-1), grub-coreboot, grub-efi-amd64, grub-efi-ia32, grub-ieee1275, grub-legacy, grub2 (< 1.99-27+deb7u3) Description: GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (PC/BIOS version) GRUB is a portable, powerful bootloader. This version of GRUB is based on a cleaner design than its predecessors, and provides the following new features: * Scripting in grub.cfg using BASH-like syntax. * Support for modern partition maps such as GPT. * Modular generation of grub.cfg via update-grub. Packages providing GRUB add-ons can plug in their own script rules and trigger updates by invoking update-grub2. * VESA-based graphical mode with background image support and complete 24-bit color set. * Support for extended charsets. Users can write UTF-8 text to their menu entries. This package contains a version of GRUB that has been built for use with traditional PC/BIOS architecture. Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/