>>>>> OKUJI Yoshinori writes:
>> The main thing that bugs me is that the ffs stage1.5 already seems
>> to be too big for the FFS boot blocks (by about 200 bytes), and it
>> isn't even full-featured yet (no symlink support). :(
OY> The following patch makes it less than 6500 bytes. I'm using
OY> gcc-2.7.2.3 and binutils-2.9.1.0.20. Probably it's possible to
OY> make it more small.
Excellent!
I have taken up your challenge to make it smaller:
trick:/pub/src/gord/grub$ ls -l /share/grub/i386-pc/
total 97
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6172 Mar 8 00:50 e2fs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7200 Mar 8 00:50 fat_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5016 Mar 8 00:50 ffs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Mar 8 00:50 stage1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 34900 Mar 8 00:50 stage2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39384 Mar 8 00:50 stage2_debug
trick:/pub/src/gord/grub$
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