On the brink of insanity, my tattered mind unable to comprehend the twisted interplay of millennia of arcane programmer-time and the ragged screech of madness, I reached into the Mass and steeled myself to the ground lest I be pulled in, and found my magnum opus.
Booting Linux off of a Google Drive root.
↫ Ersei
That’s not… You shouldn’t… Why would…
Oh my God, have mercy on his soul.
But I’m genuinely impressed that there’s a GDrive FUSE good enough for this.
With t title like that I kind of expected to see iPXE for network booting (downloading that initramfs) as well.
“Nobody stopped me, so I kept going.”
THE DEVILS’ HANDS ARE AT WORK HERE
This isn’t “booting Linux off GDrive”, this is “mounting / off GDrive” which is something very different.
* The EFI is (obviously) local to the computer.
* The boot loader is local to the computer (local storage).
* The kernel is loaded from the local computer (local storage).
IOW, you still need storage of some kind in the local computer, which kind of negates all the benefits of network boot setups.
I’ll be impressed when they figure out how to use links to files stored in GDrive to download/load the kernel via iPXE (or similar). That’s “booting Linux off GDrive”. 🙂