configure fail for grub

configure fail for grub

[Alan Zheng]

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Hello All:

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?

-- 
Best Regards

Alan Zheng

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RE: configure fail for grub

[James Shewey]

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Grub will not currently compile on 64 bit distros. Try compiling with a 32 bit live cd or a 32 bit VM (you can try virtualbox.org for this) and then copying the requisite files to the 64 bit OS.

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Zheng <machinecat1666@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 3:50 AM
To: grub-devel@gnu.org
Subject: configure fail for grub

Hello All:

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?

-- 
Best Regards

Alan Zheng

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Re: configure fail for grub

[Vesa Jääskeläinen]

James Shewey wrote:
> Grub will not currently compile on 64 bit distros. Try compiling with a 32 bit live cd or a 32 bit VM (you can try virtualbox.org for this) and then copying the requisite files to the 64 bit OS.

I compile GRUB 2 SVN always on 64 bit Ubuntu...

So please try with SVN version.

Re: configure fail for grub

[James Shewey]

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This is what I used (64 bit ubuntu trying to compile grub2 latest SVN [at
the time, that was about 2 mos ago]) to compile (which resulted in this
error). I had to compile on 32 bit to get it to work. I compiled on 32 bit
because I either read it on the mailing list or was told that in the IRC
channel at the time. But if it should work... Try compiling it with the
latest version of SVN and see what happens. If it still doesn't work, see if
you can work with the devs here to figure out why it is not working.

Regards,

James

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Vesa Jääskeläinen <chaac@nic.fi> wrote:

> James Shewey wrote:
> > Grub will not currently compile on 64 bit distros. Try compiling with a
> 32 bit live cd or a 32 bit VM (you can try virtualbox.org for this) and
> then copying the requisite files to the 64 bit OS.
>
> I compile GRUB 2 SVN always on 64 bit Ubuntu...
>
> So please try with SVN version.
>
>
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RE: configure fail for grub

[Pavel Roskin]

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

Re: configure fail for grub

[Viswesh S]

----- Original Message ----
> From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
> 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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RE: configure fail for grub

[James Shewey]

This might be good to include in the wiki...

-----Original Message-----
From: Viswesh S <viswesh_vichu@yahoo.com>
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 <proski@gnu.org>
> 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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