> What > would be very interesting is to not have a root at all, but just boot > as a terminal from somewhere, but we are not ready yet.
9xen was already bootable as a diskless terminal before the block device driver was written. Or do you mean not have a linux root? In the world of OS-on-top-of-OS you need to disambiguate terms like "root", "boot", "console" etc because there are too many of them.
