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| 8 | <sect1 id="ch-boot-building-a-bootloader" role="wrap">
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| 9 | <?dbhtml filename="building-a-bootloader.html"?>
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| 11 | <title>Building a bootloader</title>
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| 12 |
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| 13 | <para>On x86 and x86_64 (multilib) architectures, the preferred
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| 14 | bootloader is GRUB. Unfortunately, GRUB doesn't work on x86_64
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| 15 | Pure64 - the stage2 files can be correctly built as 32-bit, but the
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| 16 | <command>grub</command> shell is a 64-bit program, and tries to
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| 17 | execute some of the stage2 routines - this results in a segmentation
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| 18 | fault. Therefore, in the final system we use Lilo as the bootloader.
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| 19 | </para>
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| 20 |
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| 21 | <para>If you already have a bootloader, such as GRUB, installed on
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| 22 | the system then you should use that to make your new kernel bootable.
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| 23 | </para>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <note>
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| 26 | <para>We will now cross-compile Bin86 and Lilo - these instructions
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| 27 | assume you are using an x86_64 machine (e.g. booted fron a Live CD),
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| 28 | either pure64 or multilib. This approach will not work if you are
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| 29 | running the machine as i686, because a 32-bit kernel will not be
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| 30 | able to execute a 64-bit binary to install the bootloader. If that
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| 31 | is the case, you will need to install an i686 bootloader on the
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| 32 | host system.
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| 33 | </para>
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| 34 | </note>
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| 36 | </sect1>
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