OK, so I have made some various tests, and in particular, as suggested by
Okuji, suppressed the long help messages. I have put out all the debug
functions, the "sugar" (find, setkey, color --- if one wants colors, he can
use A_NORMAL and A_REVERSE to define them at compile time), but
From: Thierry Laronde [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: FYI: GRUB size reduced
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 16:27:53 +0100
The result is a 66372 Ko stage2, and I find this size reasonable for an
installation floppy, if combined with the use of an extended format (I have
not tested at the moment
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 02:39:26AM +0900, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote:
However, I think it will be the best way to compress the most part of
stage2, in the future. The size of pre_stage2 is about 86kb by default,
and the size of pre_stage2.gz is about 46kb. Because the bootstrap
code is 1kb and
