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Re: Xen bootloader (was: Re: [Xen-devel] Xen Roadmap proposal)

from [John Levon] [Permanent Link][Original]
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Subject: Re: Xen bootloader (was: Re: [Xen-devel] Xen Roadmap proposal)
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Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 16:02:50 +0100
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On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 03:36:36PM +0100, Mark Williamson wrote:

> IIRC, Linux kexec can boot other OSes in principle, so we should be able to 
> make this work for anything Linux can read the filesystem of.

Which is a pretty serious restriction. I'm still not clear on why this
is a preferable approach to modifying grub?

thanks,
john

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