Re: cannot execute grub

2008-12-11 Thread lee
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 07:59:35AM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2008-12-12 03:38 +0100, lee wrote: > > > Shouldn't there be an amd64 version of grub? > > There should be, but there isn't. Poking around in the source I found a > pointer to a binutils bug, http://bugs.debian.org/244498. Appare

Re: cannot execute grub

2008-12-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-12-12 03:38 +0100, lee wrote: > Shouldn't there be an amd64 version of grub? There should be, but there isn't. Poking around in the source I found a pointer to a binutils bug, http://bugs.debian.org/244498. Apparently nobody is really interested in resolving that issue, so you're on you

Re: cannot execute grub

2008-12-11 Thread lee
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 09:14:57AM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2008-12-11 08:49 +0100, lee wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > is grub executable on i386 only, or does it requre 32bit support in > > the kernel? > > It does require 32-bit emulation on amd64, yes. > > > cat:/boot# file /usr/sbin/grub > >

Re: cannot execute grub

2008-12-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-12-11 08:49 +0100, lee wrote: > Hi, > > is grub executable on i386 only, or does it requre 32bit support in > the kernel? It does require 32-bit emulation on amd64, yes. > cat:/boot# file /usr/sbin/grub > /usr/sbin/grub: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), > static