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  • From: "David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT gmail.com>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] BL 3.40 preliminary GRUB report
  • Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:12:58 -0700

sindi keesan wrote:

> Something easier than LILO would be nice as an add-on package. How big is
> the LILO on the 2-floppy BL3.40? How big is syslinux (which David used to
> set up a 1-floppy USB linux)?

GRUB:

# ls -l /boot/grub/stage2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 109792 Apr 30 2002 /boot/grub/stage2

syslinux:

# dd if=/dev/zero of=dosfs bs=1k count=1440
1440+0 records in
1440+0 records out
# mkdosfs dosfs
mkdosfs 2.8 (28 Feb 2001)
# cp dosfs dosfs_with_syslinux
# syslinux dosfs_with_syslinux
# cmp -l dosfs dosfs_with_syslinux | wc -l
9294

Does anybody have a size estimate for lilo?

As you can see, syslinux is only 9k, compared with about 100k for
GRUB. syslinux also installs to a FAT filesystem, which has less
overhead than ext2 for a floppy-sized image. There is a variant of
syslinux that boots from ext2 instead, it's called extlinux.

David




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