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Randy Barlow posted on Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:12:48 -0500 as excerpted: |
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> Man, I'm getting frustrated now. I just went and got the latest stage 3, |
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> and it still fails to install grub with the same problem. I don't really |
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> need the multilib setup, so I suppose I will try to no-multilib profile, |
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> but it is frustrating that this won't work for me. Thanks for the help |
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> Duncan, and I'll post back when I get it all running. This is my first |
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> KVM Gentoo setup... |
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Note that there's also grub-static, which is what is used if you run no- |
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multilib and thus can't compile grub. Grub-static is basically a |
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binpkged version of grub, that they ship pre-built, for those 64-bit-only |
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folks who don't have a 32-bit compiler to build grub with. |
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If you're on the fence about multilib, try grub-static first. |
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(Actually, the thought occurs to me that I'm not sure how VMs boot, do |
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they need grub at all, or can the host load the kernel into the VM |
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directly and set it running, in effect functioning as the boot-loader? |
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Or maybe they use something like the DOS based loadln? I don't know. |
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But presumably you're following a HOWTO of some kind and it says use |
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grub?) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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