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apollo wrote:
> I installed latest cygwin, and get the Christian's `grub2 for cygwin', but i failed to configure this grub2 with the error: 
>
> 'configure: error: GRUB requires a working absolute objcopy; upgrade your binutils'.
>
> so i tred the 'ubuntu' latest version of Grub2 from 
>
> `http://merges.ubuntu.com/g/grub2/`, and this time, i failed with 'configure: error: neither start nor _start is defined'.
>
>
> so, how can I get a working copy of grub2 on cygwin? Any suggestion please?
>
>   

Run Cygwin's setup.exe, select "Exp"erimental packages, and install the 
grub package grub :-)
The corresponding source package compiles OOTB on Cygwin without the 
above problems.

Christian