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