[syslinux] chainboot from grub to syslinux in logical partition

[H. Peter Anvin]

Cynthia Flynn wrote:
> 
> I began this thread with the assertion that I needed to use GRUB, but 
> gave no explanation. The primary reason was the need to create the 
> bootable thumb drives using FreeBSD systems. Both GRUB Legacy and 
> syslinux are available in the FreeBSD ports collection. My reason for 
> avoiding syslinux was because its FreeBSD port has an completely absurd 
> number of direct and indirect dependencies. It was easily doubling the 
> number of installed ports on our servers, which is not acceptable to us. 
> Why syslinux should require both perl *and* python is not something I 
> looked into. Add to that several X11 libraries and the mtools mess and 
> the consequential dependencies *really* pile up. The GRUB Legacy port 
> causes no where near the bloat.
> 

Okay, that sounds like the FreeBSD port stuff pull in way too many 
things that aren't obligatory.  Python is only used by one small contrib 
script that isn't relevant to 99% of all users (pretty much only used by 
large-site system administrators); the X libraries I have no clue where 
they even come into the picture!

Sounds like the FreeBSD ports people either need to factor the package 
differently, or suppress some of their dependencies.

	-hpa