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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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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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It seems grub2 is a whopper. Check this out: |
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root@fireball / # du -shc /boot/ |
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13M /boot/ |
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13M total |
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root@fireball / # ls -al /boot/bzImage-2.6.36-r* |
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4201472 Dec 15 00:16 /boot/bzImage-2.6.36-r4-1 |
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4204768 Dec 19 23:11 /boot/bzImage-2.6.36-r4-2 |
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4207168 Jan 4 23:38 /boot/bzImage-2.6.36-r6-1 |
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root@fireball / # |
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So, my /boot is 13Mbs and I have three kernels there plus copies of |
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their config files as well. Those are full blown ones since I don't use |
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modules. I guess grub2 may make some people have to grow their /boot |
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partition a bit for all that. I'm not planning to try grub2 for a bit |
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yet but from the looks of it, it's a good thing I made my /boot |
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partition 200Mbs. o_O |
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Why so much you reckon? I did a emerge -pv and it has to install three |
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more packages, in addition to the ones grub-static pulled in already. |
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Does grub2 wash dishes too? I need one of those if it does. lol |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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