Bootloader vfat issues (long post)

> From: Philip Blundell <pb_at_nexus.co.uk>
>bootloader doesn't support ext2

I'm not trying to critisize the good work that the CRL
group has done on the bootloader so far, but why
doesn't the bootloader support booting from a native
linux partition? Speaking purely as a user, not a
developer, I find that _very_ surprising. I can, like
you suggest, mount a vfat partition on /boot once I
pivot-root to it, but vfat doesn't support symbolic
links, and there _are_ links in familiar's /boot
directory. It seems like this makes the booting from a
hard disk unnecessarily complicated.

On a related issue, does the bootloader handle
filenames longer than 8.3 format yet?

I'll try to see about adding ext3 support to the
bootloader.

B

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Received on Sat Dec 27 2003 - 00:07:40 EST