Processed: Re: Bug#250225: grub: FTBFS: missing amd64 support.

[Robert Millan]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 09:14:16AM +1000, Jason Thomas wrote:
> It's not really upto us what grub supports. People keep forgetting that
> we package what upstream provide. If you can make it work on amd64
> submit a patch. I don't have and amd64 machine to test on.

FWIH, it works on amd64 when the stage files are built for pure i386. This
is not accomplishable in the package untill we have biarch support in dpkg.

There's also a bug that breaks on ram >4GB. The patch is one of those we
have in the "Patches from Red Hat" bug.

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Robert Millan

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