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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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