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   :blobancap: :blobcattrans: :blobancap: :blobcattrans: :blobancap: :blobcattrans: (allison@hidamari.apartments)'s status on Monday, 20-Nov-2023 08:40:44 JST :blobancap: :blobcattrans: :blobancap: :blobcattrans: :blobancap: :blobcattrans:
   @ezio I'm pretty sure Linux had the ability to chainboot from FAT at at least one time in order to support DOS setups without multiple partitions, but I don't know if that support still exists or not
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     Ian Douglas Scott (ids1024@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 20-Nov-2023 09:15:24 JST Ian Douglas Scott

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     Some setups like that use a file system image store in a file on the fatfs or ntfs partition.

     I guess it also depends what one means by "boot Linux". Technically you can load a kernel and initfs from the EFI partition without an actual root filesystem to mount. Or even put Linux and coreboot in ROM without any boot drive. But a normal distro will expect a root filesystem with normal Unix permissions.

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