[ipxe-devel] Error: undefined symbol `_tmp_start' referenced in expression

[Michael Brown]

On Sunday 01 Jul 2012 10:28:30 Andrew Savchenko wrote:
> I have several Realtek cards and have the very same problem during
> build:
> 
> [AR] bin/blib.a
> ar: creating bin/blib.a
>   [LD] bin/19691026.tmp
> arch/i386/scripts/i386.lds:1: undefined symbol `_tmp_start'
> referenced in expression make: *** [bin/19691026.tmp] Error 1
> 
> I tried on different hosts, with different cards (but all of them are
> Realtek) and I got this failure everywhere.
> 
> Mine ld is from binutils-2.22-r1 (Gentoo). This this the latest
> non-masked version in the distribution.

It looks as though you are trying to build bin/19691026.tmp instead of a valid 
format such as bin/19691026.rom, bin/19691026.pxe, bin/19691026.lkrn etc.

Michael