On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Moinak Ghosh<moinakg at belenix.org> wrote:
> 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.
>

Yes.. it's basically the LiveUSB with the ntfs fuse modules added...
it is being used in read-only mode. Kazuhiko replied in the indiana
list.

~Anil

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