Re: cannot execute grub
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 09:14:57AM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> 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.
Shouldn't there be an amd64 version of grub?
> > 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.
Hm, I thought I had to run grub to get a new kernel installed. So
changing the menu.list is all it takes?
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