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Shining Arcanine
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 10:07 pm    Post subject: GRUB on a 64-bit system Reply with quote

What stops GRUB from working with a 64-bit system, specifically if IA-32 emulation support is disabled in the kernel?
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 1:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

AFAIK nothing. It's not clear what you are asking. GRUB is not working on a newly installed pure 64-bit system or what? It doesn't boot? GRUB binary doesn't run?
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 1:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Agreed...lot's of AMD64 people here using grub...sounds like you have a grub problem of some sort, but it has nothing to do with running a 64 bit system.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 1:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm guessing he's talking about this:

Code:
$ emerge -qp grub

!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "sys-boot/grub" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
- sys-boot/grub-9999 (masked by: package.mask, missing keyword)
/usr/portage/profiles/features/64bit-native/package.mask:
# AMD64 Team; <amd64@gentoo.org>
# grub is not available on no-multilib-profiles; use sys-boot/grub-static
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 4:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Gentoo Handbook says to use LILO instead of Grub:

Gentoo Handbook wrote:
Important: If you are using a non-multilib profile, you should not emerge grub, but instead you should emerge grub-static. If you plan to use a non-multilib profile and you have disabled IA-32 emulation in your kernel, then you should use lilo.


Does this mean that there is no technical issue that mandates the use of LILO?
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 8:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I see it now...I'm using a multi-lib 64 bit system, so I never ran into this problem
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 1:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If your not using a multilib profile on your system then use sys-boot/grub-static :wink:
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