Re: Grub memory usages help

[sky knight]

From: Colin D Bennett <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: Grub memory usages help
To: "The development of GRUB 2" <address@hidden>
Cc: address@hidden
Date: Monday, December 29, 2008, 12:57 PM

On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 09:38:05 -0800 (PST)
sky knight <address@hidden> wrote:

Memory usage details?  Can you elaborate?  Do you mean "how to allocate
memory on the heap", or how to determine the amount of memory used by
GRUB at runtime?

As for how to create a graphical menu theme:

Example themes
  Screenshots: <http://grub.gibibit.com/Themes>;
  Theme source archive:
    <http://grub.gibibit.com/files/grub-themes-src-2008-08-15.tgz>.

Theme file format is documentation
  <http://grub.gibibit.com/Theme_format>,
  <http://grub.enbug.org/ThemeFormat>.

More information about the graphical menu system for developers
  <http://grub.gibibit.com/gfxmenu_design>,
  <http://grub.enbug.org/Subprojects/GraphicalMenu>.

In order to use graphical menu themes, you currently need to build from
a snapshot of my branch, which contains the gfxmenu feature.  It is in
the process of being merged into GRUB mainline, but it's not there
yet.  Here's the info on building it:


Building GRUB+gfxmenu, 19 December 2008
=======================================

I have posted a source tarball
(<http://grub.gibibit.com/files/cdbmain_r867.tar.bz2>) to make it easy
to build GRUB 2 with gfxmenu support on your own if you want to install
it on a real machine instead of just testing with the premade ISO image
that I created.

To build and install GRUB 2, the following commands should suffice::

   tar -xjf cdbmain_r867.tar.bz2
   cd cdbmain_r867
   mkdir build
   cd build
   sh ../configure --prefix=YOUR_PREFIX_DIR
   make
   make install  (or sudo make install, depending on the prefix)

Some people have tried to extract the files from the premade gfxmenu
demo ISO I provide on the download page, and either insert new files
into the ISO image or install the files to a hard drive device.  This
usually does not work, so I recommend building GRUB 2 with gfxmenu from
the source tarball yourself if you want to boot your machine with it or
customize it.

Thanks that sure gave me lots of input for GRUB GFX.

I want to know both about the how to allocate
memory on the heap & how to determine the amount of memory used by
GRUB at runtime.

-Welkin-