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From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
Subject: Re: Xen bootloader
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 09:24:07 -0600
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John Levon wrote:
> 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?

let's not forget Plan 9, eh? Would this approach support plan 9?

My guess is 'uh, I dunno'.

ron