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

To: Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: John Levon <levon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 16:02:50 +0100
Cc: Ian Pratt <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, yhlu <yhlu.kernel@xxxxxxxxx>, Michael Loehr <MLOEHR@xxxxxxxxxx>
Delivery-date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 08:03:13 -0700
List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xensource.com>

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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