Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Apr 1999 23:33:30 +0200 | From | Steffen Ullrich <> | Subject | load linux from linux?? |
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The question is probably not that much kernel-related, but I couldn't find anything useful on the net and don't I think the other news groups in the other news groups this will be more offtopic than in this. Is there any way to use something like loadlin from linux (don't reply yet, wait for the details). What I want is to make an install disk, which boots into a minimal linux, then scans all disks/CD-ROM/(maybe network) for an installable linux version and then boots this version so that it get installed. This means that it has to overwrite the kernel because the distribution to install will maybe contain already a newer kernel. So it has similar things to do loadlin does when it boots linux by overwriting a running windows. Another interesting use would be to have a read-only bootimage (maybe on a floppy) to boot linux, then check all file systems on the disk and if all is fine overwrite myself by executing the bootsector (e.g. LILO) which then will continue with booting the real linux. If the disk check fails (root partition might be corrupt, disk might be damaged...) I could continue the boot process from the read-only medium and go into a kind of maintance mode (and for instance initialize a modem, notify a remote admin and wait for him to log in from outside and try to solve the problem).
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