Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
