Alternative booting

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

David Krings wrote:
> 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.
> 
You could always use LILO - the boot loader does not read any file
system - it just knows the location on the disk. The
installer/updater gets the location from the kernel, so as long as
the kernel knows, that is all that matters.

Mikkel
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