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Re: 32-Bit Bootloader
Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2014 12:41 pm
by Antti
Brendan wrote:Instead of designing the native file system, I just say "the first N sectors of the partition are reserved for boot stuff", so I can design the file system around that later on.
What if there was a boot partition? The boot partition file system could be "combine all boot files into a single boot image". The native file system partition could be fully controlled by the native file system. Would it be more elegant? This works well only if using GPT partitions (a "file system type" is not 8-bit number).
Re: 32-Bit Bootloader
Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2014 5:24 am
by Brendan
Hi,
Antti wrote:Brendan wrote:Instead of designing the native file system, I just say "the first N sectors of the partition are reserved for boot stuff", so I can design the file system around that later on.
What if there was a boot partition? The boot partition file system could be "combine all boot files into a single boot image". The native file system partition could be fully controlled by the native file system. Would it be more elegant? This works well only if using GPT partitions (a "file system type" is not 8-bit number).
That's definitely a possible option. I just like having my OS to be as self contained as possible (e.g. one partition per instance of the OS).
Cheers,
Brendan