Eric W. Biederman wrote:

>ollie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>>Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>
>>>I agree that a single filesystem does not add too much bloat.  The general
>>>case of supporting all filesystems does add bloat.
>>>
>>>Adding a filesystem layer does add a lot of restrictions.  It insists you have
>>>
>>>a boot partition.
>>>It insists that boot partition have a specific filesystem on it.
>>>It insists you have a specific file on that boot partition.
>>>
>>>If you have support for booting off an arbitrary file on the filesystem,
>>>and selecting amoung them I'd love to hear about it.
>>>
>>Actually, I found that booting in Grub's style is great only if its code
>>is more "maintainable".
>>
>
>???
>
>Could you be a little less terse.  I don't quite get what you are trying
>to say.
>
I mean, the concept of booting from arbitrary filesystem/network 
protocal is good. But the
implementation in the current Grub source is terrible.

Ollie



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