From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 14 02:08:34 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A396816A407 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:08:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nomadlogic@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.175]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3534813C48D for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:08:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nomadlogic@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 71so32877ugh for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 18:08:32 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=GYutkvqNL89x9PGnnoZ1UiRWfGLFGg8muVrzplBTcX7R37DEVOLp2CsS1+eSmfl+iSVrbnl0jdE5OJaUNlZaCVuBIrG9eh5VGR94aRr0QtqOfaerF4ad9Jv4ci8vt7KXUeMPOmXWP6d6OCscJJaFRmpnlYBupcF52FaWwoicssU= Received: by 10.78.149.15 with SMTP id w15mr168695hud.1171418912392; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 18:08:32 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.195.14 with HTTP; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 18:08:32 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <57d710000702131808k251b3309y6010322c7b8a5d30@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 18:08:32 -0800 From: "pete wright" To: Questions In-Reply-To: <1159.192.168.1.2.1171417443.squirrel@mail.totaldiver.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1159.192.168.1.2.1171417443.squirrel@mail.totaldiver.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dual boot problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:08:34 -0000 On 2/13/07, Questions wrote: > Hello, > > > This weekend I purchased a laptop with a core2duo processor. The laptop > came with windows Vista premier. Due to some applications that I require, > removing Vista and installing FreeBSD is not an issue. (Please leave the > Vista/Microsoft flames at the door) > > When I install FreeBSD/i386, I can then install grub (instead of > FreeBSD's bootloader) and I can have grub "chainload" the Vista > bootloader. All works fine. > > However, when I try FreeBSD/amd64, grub won't compile (it's architecture > is forced to i386 only in the Makefile. I haven't dug into why, but I'm > confident there is a reason. Obviously, grub becomes a non-option. Gag > has the same limitation of being i386 only. > to make sure i understand this correctly, you can install FreeBSD (assuming 6.1-RELEASE)/amd64 on your system but am having problems compiling grub in this environment from the ports tree? it looks like grub may only build correctly on i386 systems, but you may be able to define your cpu as a 32bit arch in /etc/make.conf while trying to build grub to see if that works. i've never had to do this though, but it's worth a shot. -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group