> Could you stick the Linux kernel and initramfs on the EFI boot partition as a UKI
I considered that, even if it would go against the idea of having everything inside the Windows partition. I'd rather have had a shim in the EFI, with the UKI in C:\
The difficulty was bitlocker: my approach was a UKI with a small kernel and a few binaries to open the bitlocker volume and kexec the bigger kernel.
I was also exploring how to mark part of the NTFS volume as unusable to stick a different payload there.
The "ISO on a thumbdrive" was done to get baremetal boot working and out of the way, to see if I needed deeper changes to what had started as a 2 stages boot process, or if it was good enough as-as.
> Linux supports NTFS.
The kernel module is great!
I wish there was a linux distribution that could be run from either WSL or baremetal, to get more people familiar with baremetal linux.
I considered that, even if it would go against the idea of having everything inside the Windows partition. I'd rather have had a shim in the EFI, with the UKI in C:\
The difficulty was bitlocker: my approach was a UKI with a small kernel and a few binaries to open the bitlocker volume and kexec the bigger kernel.
I was also exploring how to mark part of the NTFS volume as unusable to stick a different payload there.
The "ISO on a thumbdrive" was done to get baremetal boot working and out of the way, to see if I needed deeper changes to what had started as a 2 stages boot process, or if it was good enough as-as.
> Linux supports NTFS.
The kernel module is great!
I wish there was a linux distribution that could be run from either WSL or baremetal, to get more people familiar with baremetal linux.