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On Jun 1, 2016, at 10:23, Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@puchar.net> wrote:

>>=20
>> And why it is simultaneously desirable to add a bunch of code to loader
>> to hide this ?
>=20
> For me it is nonsense ending with having another copy of kernel as boot lo=
ader ;), which will in turn require another normal boot loader to load it ;)=


What are you talking about?  Nobody's added another stage to the boot loader=
, nor is anyone advocating doing so.=