This might be good to include in the wiki...
-----Original Message-----
From: Viswesh S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 9:37 PM
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: configure fail for grub
----- Original Message ----
> From: Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, 9 December, 2008 6:22:36 AM
> Subject: RE: configure fail for grub
>
> On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 07:39 -0500, James Shewey wrote:
>
> > When I configure grub-1.96, I got following error message:
> >
> > configure: error: neither start nor _start is defined
> >
> > Could anybody give me some ideas for it?
>
> This happens if tools for 32-bit compilation are not available.
> Compiling on x86_64 defaults to 32-bit PC platform. It's possible to
> compile for 64-bit EFI platform by specifying:
>
> ./configure --with-platform=efi
>
> --
> Regards,
> Pavel Roskin
>
>
Hi,
As mentioned above, it is because of the 32 bit compilation tools not
available.I have faced the same problem in which my compiler was gcc-4.2.1 and
to compile this I installed gcc-3.4.3 and made the CC point to the proper
compiler and it worked.
Viswesh
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