On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 1:03 AM, pavan chandrashekar<Pavan.Chandrashekar at sun.com> wrote: > Moinak Ghosh wrote: >> >> Interesting! > > I am wondering if it is just a ramdisk image. > The grub4DOS is simply pulling the image from within the NTFS filesystem > ?(instead of UFS or ZFS like the usual GRUB), putting it in memory and > handing over control. > I, by no means, am undermining the effort that might have gone behind > getting this to work. Just wondering about the technicalities of this feat. >
Yes, I believe this to be the case. This is essentially a Live image boot from hdd. It is also possible that they are using the new ntfs3g port via fuse or something to attach to a read-only compressed image from lofi. Regards, Moinak. -- ================================ http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/
