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Apparently, though unproven, at 02:44 on Sunday 09 January 2011, Dale did |
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opine thusly: |
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> I have not tried grub2 yet but I did fine these: |
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> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2 |
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> That has a lot of info on the grub2 conf file. It is called grub.cfg if |
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> I read that correctly. There is a lot of info there. Seems a bit |
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> complicated since I don't have it installed and can really follow what |
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> they mean on things. This next one is a bit more basic tho: |
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> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Grub2 |
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> This one seems to have a example and not quite so complicated. |
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> http://grub.enbug.org/grub.cfg |
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I don't quite agree with Volker's viewpoint but don't totally disagree with |
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him either. grub2 has a whole whack of bloat all of it's own. Here's what |
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Ubuntu has on 10.10: |
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$ ls -al /boot/ |
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total 17656 |
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drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2011-01-08 21:37 . |
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drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 2011-01-08 21:21 .. |
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 705861 2010-12-02 09:07 abi-2.6.35-24-generic |
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 128614 2010-12-02 09:07 config-2.6.35-24-generic |
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drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2011-01-08 21:21 grub |
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10752449 2010-12-28 20:57 initrd.img-2.6.35-24-generic |
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 165084 2010-09-24 19:14 memtest86+.bin |
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 167264 2010-09-24 19:14 memtest86+_multiboot.bin |
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1831358 2010-12-02 09:07 System.map-2.6.35-24-generic |
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1192 2010-12-02 09:10 vmcoreinfo-2.6.35-24-generic |
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4294032 2010-12-02 09:07 vmlinuz-2.6.35-24-generic |
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$ du -sh /boot/ |
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22M /boot/ |
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Most of that is an 11M initrd and a 4.1M kernel. |
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What?? A fully modular kernel weighing in it 4.1M?? |
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grub2 modules are 4.1M, not too bad, except by looking at filenames there iss |
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support in there for jpeg, intel 915, xfs, andrewfs, hfsplus, iso9660, jfs and |
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$DEITY knows what else. Including tar. |
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Methinks a modular build system is in order here. Why should I build support |
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for sparc when I know for a fact I'm building an x86 installer? |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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