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An Open-Source Bootloader For Windows Lets You Run Off Btrfs, Other Possibilities
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Originally posted by boxie View Post
and in the same vein as your comment...
why post useless comments on a website when you could be doing something more productive?
surely people doing their own thing is more than enough of a reason to do things.
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Originally posted by Vistaus View PostrEFInd is a cross-platform bootloader.
It creates a GUI and loads EFI boot loaders but it is not a boot loader itself. For example to boot windows it is still loading and executing Windows's EFI bootloader.
Linux kernel does not need an EFI bootloader at all as it has the EFI stub feature making itself an EFI executable (so it can be loaded and executed raw from UEFI, no bootloader needed). You can literally boot a Linux kernel raw from EFI partition with no bootloader at all if you set the Linux kernel binary as "bootloader" in the UEFI setup or with EFI var manipulation.
This does not mean rEFInd is a bootloader, just that Linux kernel is a very strange animal and can do without boot loaders.
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Originally posted by DoMiNeLa10 View PostI'm interested whether using a modern file system would make Windows a more bearable experience.
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I'm actually surprised that people are surprised this exists since ReactOS has had BTRFS boot support for about a year now. TBH I don't care about Windows support I just want the X86-64 port of ReactOS along with some better Networking/Windows 95/98 support in ReactOS.
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Originally posted by dragorth View PostI thought the original WinBTRFS was based on the ReactOS code?
The ReactOS dev worked with the WinBtrfs dev to get it fully working.
"WinBtrfs is a Windows driver for the next-generation Linux filesystem Btrfs. A reimplementation from scratch, it contains no code from the Linux kernel, and should work on any version from Windows XP onwards. It is also included as part of the free operating system ReactOS."Last edited by lectrode; 13 February 2020, 05:04 PM.
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Originally posted by mifritscher View PostIt could be used by ReactOS as well...
Maybe they can team up?
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Originally posted by illwieckz View Post
At least ReactOS already know how to boot Windows from Btrfs with their FreeLoader boot loader:
Maybe they can team up?
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