default bootloader

[tpimh]

in order for nenuzhnix to be booted on real hardware a bootloader is required

for 0.1 release the requirements are the following:

• bootloader is not part of gnu project and doesn't have gnu requirements
• bootloader builds with clang
• bootloader utilities can be linked against musl (no dependency on glibc)
• bootloader is able to boot linux kernel

for binary release a bootable nenuzhnix image will be provided. it should be working with qemu and on real hardware (for example, boot from usb stick). the target hardware is a fairly modern x86_64 machine. it can be classic bios or uefi (or both).

here are some options:

• efistub + efibootmgr (probably needs gnu-efi, maybe can be easily patched to work with yoppeh's efi instead)
• syslinux/extlinux/isolinux (no active development, may have problems with clang)
• efilinux (no active development, probably needs gnu-efi, maybe can be easily patched to work with yoppeh's efi instead)
• lilo and elilo (no active development, may have problems with clang)
• limine
• tomatboot

feel free to express your thoughts and add more options to this list

[tpimh]

oops, this is actually meant for v0.1, not v1.0