Re: amd64/grub package?

2009-05-30 Thread Donald Allen
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2009-05-30, Donald Allen wrote: >> So, I'd like to ask why grub is apparently unsupported on the amd64 >> architecture? > > It doesn't build. If you add amd64 to ONLY_FOR_ARCHS and try it: Thank you for the pertinent response. The tho

Re: amd64/grub package?

2009-05-30 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2009-05-30, Donald Allen wrote: > So, I'd like to ask why grub is apparently unsupported on the amd64 > architecture? It doesn't build. If you add amd64 to ONLY_FOR_ARCHS and try it: configure:2421: checking for C compiler default output file name configure:2424: cc -m32 -ftrampolines -fno-st

Re: amd64/grub package?

2009-05-30 Thread Brian
--- On Sat, 5/30/09, Donald Allen wrote: > You have to install a second-stage bootloader, so why not > use one > bootloader to do the whole job rather than two? That's > what. > So port is over. No one is stopping you.

Re: amd64/grub package?

2009-05-30 Thread Donald Allen
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Brian wrote: > > > > --- On Sat, 5/30/09, Donald Allen wrote: > >> You have to install a second-stage bootloader, so why not >> use one >> bootloader to do the whole job rather than two? That's >> what. >> > > So port is over. No one is stopping you. You must ha

Re: amd64/grub package?

2009-05-30 Thread Donald Allen
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Jason Dixon wrote: > On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 11:05:26AM -0400, Donald Allen wrote: >> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Jason Dixon wrote: >> > On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 09:10:58AM -0400, Donald Allen wrote: >> >> >> >> So, I'd like to ask why grub is apparently uns

Re: amd64/grub package?

2009-05-30 Thread Jason Dixon
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 11:05:26AM -0400, Donald Allen wrote: > On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Jason Dixon wrote: > > On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 09:10:58AM -0400, Donald Allen wrote: > >> > >> So, I'd like to ask why grub is apparently unsupported on the amd64 > >> architecture? And I would suggest

Re: amd64/grub package?

2009-05-30 Thread Donald Allen
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Jason Dixon wrote: > On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 09:10:58AM -0400, Donald Allen wrote: >> >> So, I'd like to ask why grub is apparently unsupported on the amd64 >> architecture? And I would suggest that grub provides a simple solution >> to dual-booting OpenBSD on a sy

Re: amd64/grub package?

2009-05-30 Thread Jason Dixon
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 09:10:58AM -0400, Donald Allen wrote: > > So, I'd like to ask why grub is apparently unsupported on the amd64 > architecture? And I would suggest that grub provides a simple solution > to dual-booting OpenBSD on a system that had been previously > dual-booted with Windows a

amd64/grub package?

2009-05-30 Thread Donald Allen
I've just installed OpenBSD 4.5, first on an i386 system and then on an amd64 machine. Both installations are dual-boot with Windows XP. The i386 machine, which I worked on first, was pretty straightforward -- I made a grub boot floppy so I was able to boot the system after installation, installed