From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: mkfs command in grub
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 20:28:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200603112028.59600.okuji@enbug.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mzfxujxi.fsf@xs4all.nl>
On Saturday 11 March 2006 14:37, Marco Gerards wrote:
> Unfortunately the rationale behind this idea was not in the original
> email.
I know.
> The main reason for this feature request was that swap space can be
> shared between windows and GNU/Linux this way. So you can make a fat
> filesystem when booting windows and a swap filesystem when booting
> GNU/Linux. Although this is not something really important for us, I
> do see the use of such feature.
So? Why does a boot loader have to deal with that? Is a swap partition
creation critical for booting? Why don't you just make a swap partition in
the boot process of each operation system and activate it? I really don't see
this as a task for a boot loader.
Okuji
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-11 20:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-09 19:14 mkfs command in grub technologypages
2006-03-10 21:44 ` Marco Gerards
2006-03-11 9:10 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2006-03-11 11:08 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2006-03-11 14:37 ` Marco Gerards
2006-03-11 20:28 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji [this message]
2006-03-11 20:46 ` Marco Gerards
2006-03-12 0:03 ` Tomáš Ebenlendr
2006-03-12 22:28 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
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2006-03-13 13:54 technologypages
2006-03-28 16:04 ` Marco Gerards
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