Marco Gerards wrote:
Specifically, how are you handling
different filesystem structures in the boot sector?
On the PC the bootblock (512 bytes) load the GRUB kernel. This is a
binary image with a maximum size of 32KB (IIRC). This is loaded from
a fixed location and no filesystem specific code is involved.
I suppose that the consequences of this are that filesystems that don't
store the kernel contiguously (ie. compression, small-file consolidation
tricks) on disk will be incompatible with GRUB2? Don't get me wrong,
I think it's a reasonable tradeoff, I just want to make sure I
understand correctly.
BTW, how does one force a filesystem to store a file contiguously on
installation of the GRUB kernel?
BG
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