"Yoshinori K. Okuji" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Friday 10 March 2006 21:44, Marco Gerards wrote: >> I think it is easy to implement this feature, and agree it might be >> useful in the cases you described. I wonder how the other developers >> think about including such feature. > > For me, this kind of feature is an OS's task rather than a boot loader's. > Boot > loaders should concentrate on booting up operation systems, and the other > tasks should be left to each operation system. Making a filesystem is not > related to booting, since newly created filesystems contain no boot > information.
Unfortunately the rationale behind this idea was not in the original email. The main reason for this feature request was that swap space can be shared between windows and GNU/Linux this way. So you can make a fat filesystem when booting windows and a swap filesystem when booting GNU/Linux. Although this is not something really important for us, I do see the use of such feature. -- Marco _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
