linuxbios and bochs

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Brian G. Rhodes <bgr at gw.linespeed.net> [030610 17:49]:
> The initrd is 3MB uncompressed.  I require a few utilities (bash, echo,
> mount, tar, and umount).

Some of the stuff is probably implemented in busybox, which is a lot
smaller than bash, mount, umount,... 
Also, using dietlibc or uclibc might give you quite a win. Static
binaries compiled with those are often smaller than dynamic glibc
binaries.
 
Best regards,
  Stefan Reinauer
  
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