Re: cannot execute grub
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), statically linked, for GNU/Linux 2.6.8, stripped
There you go.
> Removing and reinstalling grub doesn't make a difference, but
> update-grub seems to work (I never used that before). What kind of
> magic is that?
Well, update-grub updates menu.lst but does not call grub if device.map
already exists, AFAIK.
Sven
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