diff --git a/Documentation/Administration.rst b/Documentation/Administration.rst index eaef5cf9..e7285bc4 100644 --- a/Documentation/Administration.rst +++ b/Documentation/Administration.rst @@ -8,3 +8,8 @@ Mount options ------------- .. include:: ch-mount-options.rst + +Bootloaders +----------- + +.. include:: ch-bootloaders.rst diff --git a/Documentation/btrfs-man5.rst b/Documentation/btrfs-man5.rst index 478c0434..4b927383 100644 --- a/Documentation/btrfs-man5.rst +++ b/Documentation/btrfs-man5.rst @@ -254,18 +254,7 @@ minimum filesystem size BOOTLOADER SUPPORT ------------------ -GRUB2 (https://www.gnu.org/software/grub) has the most advanced support of -booting from BTRFS with respect to features. - -U-boot (https://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/) has decent support for booting but -not all BTRFS features are implemented, check the documentation. - -EXTLINUX (from the https://syslinux.org project) can boot but does not support -all features. Please check the upstream documentation before you use it. - -The first 1MiB on each device is unused with the exception of primary -superblock that is on the offset 64KiB and spans 4KiB. - +.. include:: ch-bootloaders.rst FILE ATTRIBUTES --------------- diff --git a/Documentation/ch-bootloaders.rst b/Documentation/ch-bootloaders.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b014dfd7 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ch-bootloaders.rst @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +GRUB2 (https://www.gnu.org/software/grub) has the most advanced support of +booting from BTRFS with respect to features. + +U-boot (https://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/) has decent support for booting but +not all BTRFS features are implemented, check the documentation. + +EXTLINUX (from the https://syslinux.org project) can boot but does not support +all features. Please check the upstream documentation before you use it. + +The first 1MiB on each device is unused with the exception of primary +superblock that is on the offset 64KiB and spans 4KiB.