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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Guest boot loader support [2/2]

To: Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Guest boot loader support [2/2]
From: Christian Limpach <christian.limpach@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 23:03:05 -0700
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On 4/13/05, Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This adds pygrub, an implementation of a bootloader for domU.  It reads
> from the guest filesystem (using libext2fs) and provides a grub-like
> interface for selecting the kernel/initrd/kernel args for booting your
> domU.
> 
> TODO list off the top of my head:
> * Support filesystems other than ext[23]

Maybe you could use the filesystem reading code from grub?  It seems
to support most filesystems, only question is whether it can be reused
outside of grub in a userspace application...

    christian

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