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firasuke

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From: Aleppo, Syria

Registered: 2016-04-23

Posts: 5

Minimizing Syslinux Installation & Syslinux Keyboard Issue

As the title says:

1- Is there a way to minimize syslinux installation even more ? (removing any .c32 file, disabling the menu, removing the timeout ...etc anything else ?)

2- Syslinux seems to be randomly disabling my laptop's internal keyboard after reaching Arch's tty login (when that does I call it a bad boot and reboot my laptop till the keyboard works) , anyone facing similar problems ? (My keyboard isn't faulty and works normally when I use grub, must be something that syslinux does)

Thanks for your time !

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ukhippo

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From: Non-paged pool

Registered: 2014-02-21

Posts: 366

Re: Minimizing Syslinux Installation & Syslinux Keyboard Issue

1. Yes. You just need “prompt” and “default” statements and the boot entry definitions in your syslinux.cfg. All the directives are explained in the man page. The Arch wiki page on syslinux explains the boot process, and syslinux.org's own wiki list the module dependencies. That will enable you to determine what modules you can delete.

Can't help with 2.