[LinuxBIOS] reliable boot loader

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Sat Mar 31 20:14:10 CEST 2007


* Peter Stuge <stuge-linuxbios at cdy.org> [070331 18:11]:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 09:28:24PM +0100, Capt Beany wrote:
> > The "threat" im looking to prevent is power loss /
> > brain fade during an upgrade rather than deliberate
> > corruption or bit failure of the boot medium.
> 
> Ok! Your checksum scheme would work perfectly for making such
> atomic kernel updates.
> 
> I think adding it to FILO is a good idea.

or rather grub2,.. ?

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