Re: Idea: Improve ext2 to allow for embedding

2024-03-13 Thread Dr. Tilmann Bubeck
Am 13.03.24 um 16:31 schrieb Pascal Hambourg: On 13/03/2024 at 16:18, Dr. Tilmann Bubeck wrote: Yes, thats exactly the use case: I always have multiple linux installations (ubuntu and fedora) in two seperate partitions. To stay compatible with their individual kernel and grub updates, I alwa

Re: Idea: Improve ext2 to allow for embedding

2024-03-13 Thread Pascal Hambourg
On 13/03/2024 at 16:18, Dr. Tilmann Bubeck wrote: Yes, thats exactly the use case: I always have multiple linux installations (ubuntu and fedora) in two seperate partitions. To stay compatible with their individual kernel and grub updates, I always install a second GRUB into the root parition o

Re: Idea: Improve ext2 to allow for embedding

2024-03-13 Thread Dr. Tilmann Bubeck
Yes, thats exactly the use case: I always have multiple linux installations (ubuntu and fedora) in two seperate partitions. To stay compatible with their individual kernel and grub updates, I always install a second GRUB into the root parition of the specific linux installation. In MBR I have a

Re: Idea: Improve ext2 to allow for embedding

2024-03-13 Thread Pascal Hambourg
On 13/03/2024 at 11:25, Mate Kukri wrote: Do you have a proposed use-case for this in mind? On MBR disks there is usually enough space for core.img before the first partition. On GPT you can simply create a so-called "BIOS boot partition" to store core.img. A use case could be when you do not

Re: Idea: Improve ext2 to allow for embedding

2024-03-13 Thread Mate Kukri
Hello, Do you have a proposed use-case for this in mind? On MBR disks there is usually enough space for core.img before the first partition. On GPT you can simply create a so-called "BIOS boot partition" to store core.img. But in either, BIOS is a legacy platform, so I doubt many new users of this