Limine 9.0 Bootloader Drops EXT4 File-System Support (www.phoronix.com)

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Limine 9.0 is out today as the newest major release for this open-source modern multi-protocol bootloader and boot manager. Limine also boasts its own Limine Boot Protocol in addition to the native Linux support and chainloading/multiboot capabilities.

One change that will surprise some readers is Limine 9.0 doing away with EXT4 file-system support as well as older EXT2 and EXT3 support. The change-log notes of dropping the EXT4 file-system support:

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[-] davidgro@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Maybe it's specifically meant to be used on boot USB sticks/memory-cards and optical discs? If so then maybe this is about the host filesystem and not what's inside the images being booted?

That's the only way I can make sense of this, but I haven't heard of it before, so I just don't know.

[-] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

With the help of some replies I got it figured out

The bootloader doesn't need to support anything other than your boot partition which can be in your normal drive space, or it can be in a dedicated UEFI partition which isn't gonna be ext4, so this project aims just to support booting from the UEFI partition

Check the other replies I got if you want more context :)

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