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Re: Floppies for amd64 ?



On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 18:22 -0700, Karl Hegbloom wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 01:32 +0300, Kyuu Eturautti wrote:
> >
> > I know it's a bit off-subject, but I'd like to point out the very painful
> > USB keyboard problem with Grub at least on AMD64 which was discussed a bit
> > earlier.
> 
> Does anyone know the specifics of why grub has not been patched so that
> it will work with USB keyboards?  The thing is that on my P-III box with
> USB keyboard (ASUS VP6), it works just fine.

I wonder if grub is really built with '-m32' if it's built with gcc-3.3?
Isn't that option only working right with gcc-3.4?  If so, then perhaps
what's the matter is that it's 64 bit and cannot call 32bit bios?

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