diff -Naur grub-2.14.orig/acinclude.m4 grub-2.14/acinclude.m4
--- grub-2.14.orig/acinclude.m4	2025-11-20 17:02:39.000000000 +0100
+++ grub-2.14/acinclude.m4	2026-05-05 17:11:21.117127788 +0200
@@ -79,11 +79,6 @@
 [AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether ${TARGET_OBJCOPY} works for absolute addresses])
 AC_CACHE_VAL(grub_cv_prog_objcopy_absolute,
 [cat > conftest.c <<\EOF
-asm (
-    ".globl start, _start, __start\n"
-    ".ifdef cmain; .set start = _start = __start = cmain\n.endif\n"
-    ".ifdef _cmain; .set start = _start = __start = _cmain\n.endif\n"
-);
 void cmain (void);
 void
 cmain (void)
diff -Naur grub-2.14.orig/configure.ac grub-2.14/configure.ac
--- grub-2.14.orig/configure.ac	2026-01-14 15:30:04.000000000 +0100
+++ grub-2.14/configure.ac	2026-05-05 17:09:38.251922592 +0200
@@ -1461,6 +1461,7 @@
   TARGET_IMG_LDSCRIPT='$(top_srcdir)'"/conf/i386-cygwin-img-ld.sc"
   TARGET_IMG_LDFLAGS="-Wl,-T${TARGET_IMG_LDSCRIPT}"
   TARGET_IMG_LDFLAGS_AC="-Wl,-T${srcdir}/conf/i386-cygwin-img-ld.sc"
+  TARGET_IMG_BASE_LDOPT="-Wl,-Ttext"
   TARGET_IMG_CFLAGS=
 else
   TARGET_APPLE_LINKER=0
@@ -1468,6 +1469,7 @@
   TARGET_IMG_LDSCRIPT=
   TARGET_IMG_LDFLAGS='-Wl,-N'
   TARGET_IMG_LDFLAGS_AC='-Wl,-N'
+  TARGET_IMG_BASE_LDOPT="-Wl,-Ttext"
   TARGET_IMG_CFLAGS=
 fi
 
@@ -1798,18 +1800,6 @@
 m4_ifndef([AX_CHECK_LINK_FLAG], [m4_fatal([autoconf-archive is missing. You must install it to generate the configure script.])])
 
 if test "x$TARGET_APPLE_LINKER" != x1 ; then
-AX_CHECK_LINK_FLAG([-Wl,--image-base,0x400000],
-    [TARGET_IMG_BASE_LDOPT="-Wl,--image-base"],
-    [TARGET_IMG_BASE_LDOPT="-Wl,-Ttext"],
-    [],
-    [AC_LANG_SOURCE([
-asm (".globl start; start:");
-asm (".globl _start; _start:");
-asm (".globl __start; __start:");
-void __main (void);
-void __main (void) {}
-int main (void);
-    ])])
 grub_PROG_OBJCOPY_ABSOLUTE
 fi
 grub_PROG_LD_BUILD_ID_NONE