Re: Cross LFS - Pure 64 - Bootloaders [RFC]

2005-08-12 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Andy Neebel wrote: > > I haven't been able to do LFS on my tower for a while, but I know that > I had grub building in 64bit on it once. I have an x86_64, and iirc, > grub 0.93 didn't like 64bit, but 0.94 did. That's about the newest > grub that I have used as I haven't had

Re: Cross LFS - Pure 64 - Bootloaders [RFC]

2005-08-12 Thread Andy Neebel
On 8/10/05, Jim Gifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Archaic wrote: > > >LILO is reported to work for 64 bit. You don't seem to be acknowledging > >that since all I can see is talk of silo, colo, and grub. > > > > > Actually I don't want to add any packages. I have talked to some people > that hav

Re: Cross LFS - Pure 64 - Bootloaders [RFC]

2005-08-11 Thread Archaic
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 06:48:20PM +0200, M.Canales.es wrote: > > Then, at least for consistency, I will prefer an homogeneous solution for all > archs. If that implies to build some 32 bits tools to can compile the > bootloaders, go for it. We still can't achieve one bootloader for all arches

Re: Cross LFS - Pure 64 - Bootloaders [RFC]

2005-08-11 Thread M.Canales.es
El Miércoles, 10 de Agosto de 2005 23:18, Jim Gifford escribió: > I've been working on our cross-lfs build methods quite a bit lately, but > have ran into some dead ends when it comes to the bootloaders for all > the architectures we support. None of them will build properly on a Pure > 64 bit syst

Re: Cross LFS - Pure 64 - Bootloaders [RFC]

2005-08-10 Thread Jim Gifford
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Does LILO work for sparcs and/or MIPS machines? No bug Grub 2 is scheduled to support Sparc, x86, and ppc, but only as 32 bit. Currently none of the MIPS bootloaders that I'm familar with will boot a ELF64 object, arcboot and colo. -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: Cross LFS - Pure 64 - Bootloaders [RFC]

2005-08-10 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Archaic wrote: LILO is reported to work for 64 bit. You don't seem to be acknowledging that since all I can see is talk of silo, colo, and grub. Does LILO work for sparcs and/or MIPS machines? -- JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/f

Re: Cross LFS - Pure 64 - Bootloaders [RFC]

2005-08-10 Thread Jim Gifford
Archaic wrote: LILO is reported to work for 64 bit. You don't seem to be acknowledging that since all I can see is talk of silo, colo, and grub. Actually I don't want to add any packages. I have talked to some people that have actually built grub on a 64 bit architecture. But this still liv

Re: Cross LFS - Pure 64 - Bootloaders [RFC]

2005-08-10 Thread John Miller
Jim Gifford wrote: I was having this problem for a while, I've been working with the Silo maintainer for a few weeks now, but there is no way to build a 64 bit silo. Colo for the raq2 MIPS and Grub, also seem to have this problem. I guess a 32 Bit loader is the unwritten law for bootloaders.

Re: Cross LFS - Pure 64 - Bootloaders [RFC]

2005-08-10 Thread Archaic
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 02:57:31PM -0700, Jim Gifford wrote: > > I was having this problem for a while, I've been working with the Silo > maintainer for a few weeks now, but there is no way to build a 64 bit > silo. Colo for the raq2 MIPS and Grub, also seem to have this problem. I > guess a 32

Re: Cross LFS - Pure 64 - Bootloaders [RFC]

2005-08-10 Thread Jim Gifford
John Miller wrote: I have only been a lurker on the list, but since I stirred up all the trouble over bootloaders with my thread I should probably say something. I used lilo for my pure 64 bit system and it built just fine. Since sometime towards the end of 2004 lilo no longer requires nasm

Re: Cross LFS - Pure 64 - Bootloaders [RFC]

2005-08-10 Thread John Miller
Jim Gifford wrote: I've been working on our cross-lfs build methods quite a bit lately, but have ran into some dead ends when it comes to the bootloaders for all the architectures we support. None of them will build properly on a Pure 64 bit system. The only way I see to get around this is to

Cross LFS - Pure 64 - Bootloaders [RFC]

2005-08-10 Thread Jim Gifford
I've been working on our cross-lfs build methods quite a bit lately, but have ran into some dead ends when it comes to the bootloaders for all the architectures we support. None of them will build properly on a Pure 64 bit system. The only way I see to get around this is to build some 32 bit to