On Wed, Jun 24, 2026 at 03:23:22PM -0400, Przemek Klosowski via devel wrote: > On 6/24/26 12:21 PM, CS Sushi Man via devel wrote: > > write a simple boot loader, that loads the kernel > > into RAM directly from the hard drive, *without using any > > filesystem.* It would do this by baking an offset into the binary, > > which the program can then use to load the kernel image from a > > location on the hard drive. > > Yeah but the kernel is likely to be written across non-contiguous blocks on > the filesystem, and then you need to keep the ordered list of all the > consecutive blocks. You also need the same for the initrd. And it would have > to be done on every new kernel install.
Essentially you are reinventing a filesystem. LILO worked that way 30 years ago. There are reasons why this is model is not used any more and why UEFI firmware is able to read FAT filesystems. take care, Gerd -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
