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From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
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"Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de> writes:
> a raw device the size of the installed ram would be easiest, anyway ;-)
> handling a contiguous file in the root fs or whereever might be much too
> complicated to linear-load from the bootloader. it is not possible to
> create a single file with contiguous blocks that is not separated by
> cylinder group boundaries and the like...

The loader shouldn't have any trouble reading a file from the root
partition (or any partition for that matter) - there's no need for the
file to be stored on contiguous blocks, the only requirement is that
the file must be entirely within the BIOS-addressable portion of the
disk.

DES
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