Re: trouble installing grub on -current amd64

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:20:06PM +0100, David Laight wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:44:38PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 08:36:49PM +0000, Michael Litchard wrote:
> > > >From an earlier post
> > > 
> > > We (Liz mostly) have set up an amd64 box with current and xen3, and grub
> > > works after installing a binary package built on i386, and the
> > > netbsd/i386 shared libraries that it needs.
> > > 
> > > So if it works for them, how can I get it to work for me?
> > 
> > the output of a ktrace -i would probably show what's wrong.
> > One issue someone ran into recently, was that 
> > /emul/netbsd32/usr/libexec/ld.so
> > was a link to /libexec/ld.so instead of ../../libexec/ld.so
> 
> There should be code (not in 4.0) that treats absolute symlinks found
> within the emulation root as relative to the emulation root.
> (At least I remember making namei() work that way.)

that was my feeling as well, but I saw a ktrace that clearly showed
it did read ld.so from / and not from /emul/netbsd32


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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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