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by thisacctforreal 3008 days ago
Any relation to https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot ?
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hugelgupf 3008 days ago
No, what sigjuice said is right. The name was derived off u-boot, though, and u-root can be used (and is in use) with LinuxBoot.
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sigjuice 3008 days ago
Doesn't look like it. U-boot is a boot loader for PowerPC/ARM/MIPS/<other CPUs> boards. A typical Linux-based embedded system would consist of U-Boot, the Linux Kernel and a filesystem. u-root would be one of the many ways to construct this filesystem.
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