On Sunday 09 January 2011 22:04:44 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 19:48 on Sunday 09 January 2011, Dale did > > opine thusly: > > It seems grub2 is a whopper. Check this out: > > > > r...@fireball / # du -shc boot > > 13M boot > > 13M total > > r...@fireball / # ls -al /boot/bzImage-2.6.36-r* > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4201472 Dec 15 00:16 /boot/bzImage-2.6.36-r4-1 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4204768 Dec 19 23:11 /boot/bzImage-2.6.36-r4-2 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4207168 Jan 4 23:38 /boot/bzImage-2.6.36-r6-1 > > r...@fireball / # > > > > So, my /boot is 13Mbs and I have three kernels there plus copies of > > their config files as well. Those are full blown ones since I don't use > > modules. I guess grub2 may make some people have to grow their /boot > > partition a bit for all that. I'm not planning to try grub2 for a bit > > yet but from the looks of it, it's a good thing I made my /boot > > partition 200Mbs. o_O > > > > Why so much you reckon? I did a emerge -pv and it has to install three > > more packages, in addition to the ones grub-static pulled in already. > > Does grub2 wash dishes too? I need one of those if it does. lol > > It's trying to be an OS that's a bootloader as it's primary function. > > Think back to the days of lilo. It obviously isn't an OS and doesn't > understand OS concepts - it loads an OS. When that step is done, then and > only then do OS concepts come into play. lilo doesn't even understand how > to find a file on a disk, that's why the lilo command had to be run to tell > the bootloader which sectors on disk it had to shove into memory. > > This confused people. It annoyed even more people who often forgot to run > lilo before rebooting. So grub came along, it had the absolute minimum of > OS-like features to find and load a kernel file. It needed it's own syntax > of defining drive names, then would make it's way through the read-only fs > it found there to find the kernel. It supported a small number of file > systems, just enough so that a 50M partition would be usable on almost any > platform. > > grub2 now looks like GNU/grub (sarcasm intended). It's not a bootloader, > it's a puny OS with one extra feature - it can bootload! > > It has support for jpeg, every fs under the sun, and the grub2 ebuild even > has a truetype USE flag. > > Yes! Now my life is complete. I've been DYING for years to have a bootloader > that can properly display anti-aliased fonts for the entire 2 seconds it's > on- screen
and of course it uses a way to load the OS everybody else says is broken. GNU ftw!
