Messages in this thread | | | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Subject | Re: Back to the future. | Date | Fri, 01 Jun 2007 13:00:19 -0600 |
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Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> writes:
> Hi! > >> > While that would certainly be nifty, I think we're arguably starting >> > from the wrong point here. Why are we booting a kernel, trying to poke >> > the hardware back into some sort of mock-quiescent state, freeing memory >> > and then (finally) overwriting the entire contents of RAM rather than >> > just doing all of this from the bootloader? > > Doing it from the bootloader sounds attractive... but it is lot of > work. I'm essentially using linux as a bootloader. > > Patch for grub welcome.
Well. We actually have first class support for using linux as a bootloader. So you could use linux and do whatever dance you are doing from a bootloader if you felt the desire.
That might make the dance a little easier.
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