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Petitboot information?

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I had never heard of petitboot until reading a debian-accessibility 
thread [Can grub be made to talk?].

The information at:
   https://packages.debian.org/buster/petitboot
   https://manpages.debian.org/buster/petitboot/petitboot.8.en.html
was just enough to tantalize.

Some references imply it remedies some Grub features I dislike.
https://wiki.debian.org/accessibility#Complete_accessibility states:
> Petitboot provides the list of kernels to boot, and permits to
> append parameters, and then uses kexec to boot the desired kernel
> with the desired options. 
That reference gives instructions for installing on a standard Debian 
system. This weekend I will install it on a laptop dedicated to 
experimentation to verify it gives the desired user experience.

I've found references {e.g. 
https://www.raptorengineering.com/content/kb/1.html} which discuss 
creating a bios rom replacement. As a minimalist, that grabs my 
attention. How small can a partition be whose sole purpose is running 
petitboot.

I'm looking for links discussing petitboot itself and surveys of how 
people have used it on standard desktops/laptops.

TIA

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Petitboot information? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-07-25 15:10 +0200

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