Re: [Bootldr] Bootloader vfat issues (long post)

From: Philip Blundell <pb_at_nexus.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 10:32:01 +0000

On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 00:07, William Moser wrote:
> 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?

It does, but only as jffs2. Since the main focus of the bootloader has
been for handhelds, and these generally use flash storage, nobody has
yet found it necessary to add ext2 support.

p.
Received on Sat Dec 27 2003 - 10:32:28 EST

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