Re: Can Grub 0.97 load an x86_64 OS image?

2009-10-08 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Donnerstag, den 08.10.2009, 12:38 -0700 schrieb Dr. Dov Bulka: > is GRUB2 officially out or is it still in development? I prefer not to > use it until it is ready for public consumption. It's officially out. Note that GRUB Legacy hadn't either any stable release. It's still distributed only via

Re: Can Grub 0.97 load an x86_64 OS image?

2009-10-08 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Donnerstag, den 08.10.2009, 10:51 -0700 schrieb Dr. Dov Bulka: > What have I done wrong? > > Did I download an old version of Grub not capable of handling x86_64 > (64-bit)? Or... > Did I "configure" it wrong? What am I missing? You totally missed that GRUB 2 is out. GRUB 2's multiboot comma

Re: Can Grub 0.97 load an x86_64 OS image?

2009-10-08 Thread Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
Dr. Dov Bulka wrote: > I downloaded the sources and built a grub executable. The code has > many references to ELF32 structures and, not surprisingly, I'm unable > to load an OS image whose format is x86_64. > > The machine is running Linux 2.6.18-8.el5. > Grub version is 0.97 > Grub Legacy is aban

Can Grub 0.97 load an x86_64 OS image?

2009-10-08 Thread Dr. Dov Bulka
I downloaded the sources and built a grub executable. The code has many references to ELF32 structures and, not surprisingly, I'm unable to load an OS image whose format is x86_64. The machine is running Linux 2.6.18-8.el5. Grub version is 0.97 "uname -a" tells me that this is an x86_64 architec