I'm attempting to build GRUB version 0.90 on netbsd 1.5.  Has anyone done 
this successfully?

Initially, I did: ./configure, which yields:
configure: error: GRUB requires GAS .code16 addr32 support; upgrade your 
binutils

... even after getting the latest binary binutils, 
"cross-binutils-2.9.1.2.tgz", which would sound like a later version than 
2.9.1.0.23.

So I got the latest binutils from ftp.gnu.org, binutils-2.11.2, which built 
and "make install"'ed to /usr/local/bin.

Back to GRUB, I now do:
./configure --with-binutils=/usr/local/bin

.. I get pas the earlier .code16 problem, but get this:
checking whether /usr/local/bin/objcopy works for absolute addresses... 
configure: error: gcc cannot link at address 2000

Further investigation reveals that a gcc command inside the configure script 
seems to need the option: "-m i386nbsd" to keep it from trying to use 
"i386_elf".

At this point, I'm a little beyond my experience.. can anyone offer any 
advice?  Is this my problem, gcc, ld, objcopy, binutils, autoconf, 
configure, or GRUB's?

All I want is a program to talk to all my various network cards and do 
dhcp/bootp then tftp.. netbsd's netboot.com doesn't seem to support all the 
cards the kernel supports.

Thanks.

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