Alternative booting

[David Krings]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>> So why not give an option to write
>> the kernel data onto the first partition regardless of what that is,
>> although....it then needs to be able to read NTFS. I guess that would be
>> asking too much.
>>
> Read support for NTFS has been in the kernel for a while. Write
> support is available as well. (I forgot the package name.)

Yea, in the kernel, but this is about the time before the kernel is 
loaded. It needs to be GRUB that can read kernel location data as well 
as the driver from an NTFS partition and that is asking quite a bit 
since then GRUB would need to know a whole bunch of partition formats to 
satisfy everyone.