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On Thursday 20 April 2006 14:30, Duncan wrote: |
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> Remember, to be able to still run grub from the regular system (if you |
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> change /boot filesystems or something and need to reinstall grub with the |
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> correct stage-1.5/2, you'll need to keep the kernel options for 32-bit x86 |
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> enabled. If you don't want to do that, you can simply keep a liveCD or |
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> the like around, with grub on it, to reinstall to the hard drive and boot |
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> sector, if necessary. In that case, you really don't need the grub-static |
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> package at all, since you don't need to run grub to change its config |
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> (unlike lilo), and since if you /do/ need to run it to reinstall to the |
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> boot sector and /boot/grub/*, you'll do it off external media. |
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Fantastic thanks. I won't be turning off IA32 emulation, still need 32-bit |
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packages, just rather manage them myself in the chroot. |
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Is there any ETA/plans for a multi-arch portage working, i.e. merging 32-bit |
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and 64-bit non-bin packages with portage. |
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