Re: Booting from NTFS?
David Laight <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:15:33AM +0000, Stephen Borrill wrote: > Is there anyway to boot a kernel (with integral ramdisk, I'm not asking > for root on ntfs!) from NTFS? i.e. drop a directory of files including a > kernel into your drive C:\, edit boot.ini and then get the option of > booting the kernel. Would this require basic ntfs support to be hammered > into libsa? Almost certainly, and I'm not sure how easy it would be. Maybe the windows boot manager is capable of copying very large files to 0x7c00 - but I suspect the kernel is far too bit for that. You can boot from FAT - including some USB sticks without having to remake the FAT16 filesystem. David -- David Laight: [email protected]