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

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

But no vendor actually implements any with the exception of those forced to include APFS by Apple.

Actually some vendors implements NTFS driver in their UEFI as well.