Show threadKevin Karhan Dec 29, 2023

@fuchsiii @nixCraft Yikes!

I do want to get rid of #syslinux because it's like 200kB of #Perl that make it harder to make OS/1337 fit a #1440kB FDD.
https://github.com/OS-1337/OS1337/issues/10

Luckily @landley already pointed out the solution to me:
https://github.com/OS-1337/OS1337/issues/10#issuecomment-1868276691

So all I need is get rid of my headaches and some time to make the #MinimalLinuxBootloader go brr!
https://github.com/wikkyk/mlb

#OS1337 #mlb #Linux #EmbeddedLinux

Boot: "CORE" Edition: Alternative to syslinux - saving up to ~200kB of space on FDDs. · Issue #10 · OS-1337/OS1337

As @landley pointed out, syslinux has perl as dependency and as per observation is consuming quite a lot of space. So far, thanks to @sweetaibelle the following options are on the table: mlb - Mini...

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