Syslinux - Apr 2007 - NTFS support?

Is is possible to include NTFS support in syslinux, so Linux
could boot from NTFS partitions?

Of course syslinux itself would support just read-only access; the 
writing to NTFS (in order to store ldlinux.sys or whatever) would be 
done by mounting the partition using ntfs-3g.

I understand this could be non-trivial, so I'm willing to spend some 
money on this ... suggestions welcome.

Thank you for your consideration


Tomas M
slax.org

Tomas M wrote:
> Is is possible to include NTFS support in syslinux, so Linux
> could boot from NTFS partitions?
As far as I understand NTFS, it would be possible, but likely a lot of 
work.  However, NTFS is apparently not all that hard to parse in 
read-only mode.

I have a project to restructure syslinux so the filesystem code is 
written in C; that would make this a lot easier.  However, that's a big 
project in its own right.

I just started working for a new employer, rPath, Inc. 
(http://www.rpath.com/) and they're a lot more supportive of my upstream 
work in general and of syslinux in particular, so I might actually be 
able to make forward progress on this.

	-hpa