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.

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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?

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Best Regards

Alan Zheng