grub (v1) in f18?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 03:25:21PM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
> Why is a boot manager needed for a virtualized guest? It seems like all you need is to point to a virtual disk (or current or past snapshot) and go directly to loading the kernel. 
> 
> If I could stuff < 1024 bytes of boot loader into ext4's two boot sectors, that seems ways easier than dealing with grub.
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-December/174786.html

[My second answer, now that I've looked at that code and understand
better where you're going with this ...]

Yes, I think this is all possible, and probably better than emulating
what the BIOS does.  Even better would be if you could get those 1024
bytes down to 512 bytes (and thus fit it in a boot sector).  Then no
changes to existing hypervisors would be needed at all, and it would
run on baremetal.

Rich.

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