Hello Maurice,

On 08 Jan 15 22:57, Maurice Kinal wrote to Alexey Vissarionov:

 AV>> Good ${greeting_time}, Maurice!

 MK> Somebody *really* needs to do something about the above.  ;-)

I think others have said something in this regard as well, but maybe it works
on his system only?

 AV>> You could try syslinux instead - it's not that bloated as grub
 AV>> is.

 MK> That is even more of a pain in the ass building then grub is on a pure
 MK> 64-bit system.  Seems to me the last time I looked it wanted nasm
 MK> which I currently don't have onboard.  Also it whined about some other
 MK> stuff I don't recall at the moment, but offhand extreme DOS-think
 MK> comes to mind.  :::shudder:::

 MK> Good thing I still have a working lilo.  Yeah grub is pretty bloated.
 MK> 'ls -al /sbin/lilo' and 'ldd /sbin/lilo' follows;

 MK> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 171192 Jan  7 19:27 /sbin/lilo

 MK>         linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fff3abf1000)
 MK>         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007fb91b833000)
 MK>         /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fb91bba2000)

 MK> Lean and mean and linked to the onboard 64-bit libs.  Works for me.

Bleh. What's the difference? A few hundred MB? If you're using a 2gb hard
drive, it may make sense. I work in TB now, so grub does just fine on my
machines.

Regards,
Nick

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