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 _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
