On Thu, 7 Apr 2016 22:42:42 +0200
Anselm R Garbe <garbeam_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7 April 2016 at 20:05, Mattias Andrée
> <maandree_AT_kth.se> wrote:
> > I like SYSLINUX, Lilo was a while goal but that is
> > probably great too. I don't know if they can boot
> > BSD but if they have their own bootloaders, you can
> > chainload.
>
> SYSLINUX is 250k SLOC, of course it targets all kinds of
> different boot approaches, but this seems far beyond a
> real suckless solution. (just efi64 of SYSLINUX is 11k
> SLOC for instance).
>
> For sta.li development I'm currently tempting for ELILO
> which is 14kSLOC and quite maintainable.
>
> -Anselm
>
It is absolutely not suckless. But in comparison to
abominations like GRUB it is quite good. They are also
striving to keep it simple (their word.)
I will have too look at ELILO, I have not heard of it
before.
Received on Thu Apr 07 2016 - 22:53:17 CEST