I am not sure what additional stuff Solaris version of Grub provides but none the less I couldn't think of anything that will be needed routinely and which isn't provided by the Linux version. (I can boot from USB/Firewire disks, I can preload as many kernel modules as I want, I can use either initrd or initramfs, the whole process is more flexible than required, I can use the net console, ... etc. there might be more to this - all possible even with 64Mb RAM ;) I mean it's certainly not lacking.
I haven't yet looked at why Solaris needs so much memory - but I was comparing it with other equally featureful OSes which don't need it. So that way it was obvious to me that if I need the above listed services (aren't these the only normally needed ones), it should be possible to get them with less use of resources as demonstrated by the other OSes. Now you can tell me, FOR EXAMPLE, that Solaris provides Zones, Blah, Foo, Bar features and that's why it needs 256Mb of RAM to just boot I am not going to buy that for one reason - I haven't even heard of these features and I don't even need them in order to use Solaris as say a Workstation OS (many will agree). In this case (I am not yet saying it is the case) it surely sounds like unnecessary feature bloat to me. It should be possible to pick features which I need and which my machine is capable of running and throw away the others. So can a Solaris boot expert list down what extra things are provided by the Solaris b20 version of Grub which need so much memory to boot? _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
