Dear Sir/Madam:
I have an issue installing Debian 8 64 bit on a 32bit grub boot-loader on my Acer Aspire 5228 and I want to know how can I start a 64bit Kernel from a 32bit grub boot loader.
Thanks.
I'm looking forward to hear from you, Parsa Samet.
uname -a
Linux richard-laptop 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.81-1 x86_64 GNU/Linux
cat /etc/debian_version
7.11
aptitude show grub-pc
Package: grub-pc
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Multi-Arch: foreign
Version: 1.99-27+deb7u3
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Maintainer: GRUB Maintainers <pkg-grub-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Uncompressed Size: 488 k
Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, grub-common, grub2-common (= 1.99-27+deb7u3), grub-pc-bin (=
1.99-27+deb7u3), ucf
Conflicts: grub (< 0.97-54), grub-coreboot, grub-efi-amd64, grub-efi-ia32, grub-ieee1275, grub-legacy
Replaces: grub, grub-common (<= 1.97~beta2-1), grub-coreboot, grub-efi-amd64, grub-efi-ia32, grub-ieee1275,
grub-legacy, grub2 (< 1.99-27+deb7u3)
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (PC/BIOS version)
GRUB is a portable, powerful bootloader. This version of GRUB is based on a cleaner design than its
predecessors, and provides the following new features:
* Scripting in grub.cfg using BASH-like syntax.
* Support for modern partition maps such as GPT.
* Modular generation of grub.cfg via update-grub. Packages providing GRUB add-ons can plug in their own
script rules and trigger updates by invoking update-grub2.
* VESA-based graphical mode with background image support and complete 24-bit color set.
* Support for extended charsets. Users can write UTF-8 text to their menu entries.
This package contains a version of GRUB that has been built for use with traditional PC/BIOS architecture.
Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/