dear all,
- dloaded fedora core 1 devel x86_64 from a mirror (sunsite.cnlab-swith.ch) - installed via cd+NFS on a brand new dual Opteron Supermicro mobo
got some warning, out of my mind, so I could be wrong: 1) kudzu had a 'symbol size changed consider relinking...' 2) an ext2 error in the syslog claiming something about a ram disk filesystem (dunno which one)
the real showstopper is that after reboot, no boot loader (grub) was present. I booted the CD in rescue mode and tried to do grub-install. problem is that grub does not run. it is evidently a 32bit app but there seems to be no 32bit glibc environment installed. in particular, 'ldd grub' reports that there is no 32 dynamic linker /lib/ld-linux-XYZ.so and /lib/ has no dyn lib on this system... ething is in /lib64/
so far so good, I got a .src.rpm of grub from SRPM and tried to recompile on a chroot-ed shell of the rescuing system... now problem is that 'gcc -m32' doesn't do its job :) the comment in the grub .spec is that on x86_64 it should try to compile a 32bit, statically linked binary .... I see no gcc and glibc [s]rpm for the 32bit environment in development SRPMS/ and Fedora/RPMS dirs... so evidently I have not got a suitable build environment for 32bit apps on x86_64...
I'm a newcomer on the x86_64 but I'd like to help on this topic...
regards davide