Re: [Qemu-devel] suggestion for the QEMU advent calendar

[Fabian Greffrath]

Am Dienstag, den 09.12.2014, 09:51 +0000 schrieb Stefan Hajnoczi: 
> The multiboot image is fine.

I think so.

> 10 MB for a boot loader?  Just wow, at some point it's better to slap
> a boot sector onto the Linux kernel and be done with it, kexec already
> exists.

Well, it's a bit more than "just" a boot loader, but yeah:

$ du -h /boot/grub/
3,2M /boot/grub/locale
2,4M /boot/grub/i386-pc
2,3M /boot/grub/fonts
11M /boot/grub/

- Fabian