> As far as I recall the issues are with 64 bit nomultilib only. I think > I used grub-legacy on amd64 multilib without issues, though I'm not > sure since I use grub2 since 1.98 came out (without issues, by the way)
You are correct. On a no-multilib 64 bit system you cannot compile grub:1 - you must use grub-static or grub:2
