Re: boot loader

2015-05-13 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
Am 13.05.2015 um 09:02 schrieb Pavel Machek: Anyone here, who uses a Linux kernel as bootloader / preboot environment ? Yes. See kexec. Can you tell us a bit more about your setup ? Which platforms/archs are you on ? cu -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult +49-151-27565287 MELAG Medizintech

Re: boot loader

2015-05-13 Thread Pavel Machek
On Wed 2015-05-13 09:53:09, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: > Am 13.05.2015 um 09:02 schrieb Pavel Machek: > > >>Anyone here, who uses a Linux kernel as bootloader / preboot > >>environment ? > > > >Yes. See kexec. > > Can you tell us a bit more about your setup ? > Which platforms/archs

Re: boot loader

2015-05-13 Thread Pavel Machek
On Tue 2015-05-12 13:11:26, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: > Am 12.05.2015 um 02:17 schrieb Thiago Farina: > > >Yeah. Maybe it was a right decision from Linus to isolate, focus and work > >solely on kernel and not including everything else (like FreeBSD does) > >that makes a usable system

Re: boot loader

2015-05-12 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
Am 12.05.2015 um 02:17 schrieb Thiago Farina: Yeah. Maybe it was a right decision from Linus to isolate, focus and work solely on kernel and not including everything else (like FreeBSD does) that makes a usable system. Just a little sidenote: Plan9 uses a trimmed-down Kernel as bootloader, wh

Re: boot loader

2015-05-11 Thread Thiago Farina
Hi Pavel, On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 7:11 PM, Pavel Machek wrote: > On Tue 2015-04-28 12:12:26, Thiago Farina wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Does the kernel include a simple boot loader like FreeBSD does? > > Long time ago, Linux included ability to boot from floppy on PC. Not > any more, IIRC. Yeah. Maybe it

Re: boot loader

2015-05-11 Thread Pavel Machek
On Tue 2015-04-28 12:12:26, Thiago Farina wrote: > Hi, > > Does the kernel include a simple boot loader like FreeBSD does? Long time ago, Linux included ability to boot from floppy on PC. Not any more, IIRC. Pavel -- (engli

Re: boot loader

2015-04-29 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Thiago Farina wrote: > Does the kernel include a simple boot loader like FreeBSD does? No idea what FreeBSD does, but you can use the kernel as a boot loader for something else with kexec. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -

Re: boot loader

2015-04-28 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 08:44:34PM -0300, Thiago Farina wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 6:49 PM, Richard Weinberger > wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Thiago Farina wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Does the kernel include a simple boot loader like FreeBSD does? > > > > Why don't you figure y

Re: boot loader

2015-04-28 Thread Thiago Farina
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 6:49 PM, Richard Weinberger wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Thiago Farina wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Does the kernel include a simple boot loader like FreeBSD does? > > Why don't you figure yourself? > I think it doesn't. I just wanted someone to confirm my thought. --

Re: boot loader

2015-04-28 Thread Richard Weinberger
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Thiago Farina wrote: > Hi, > > Does the kernel include a simple boot loader like FreeBSD does? Why don't you figure yourself? -- Thanks, //richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vg