On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 04:06:49PM +0000, Paul Jakma wrote: > Hi, > > Are there any plans to add some kind of support for a two-stage boot to > Thecus N2100? > > At present kernel+initrd are stored in flash on this platform, and so > obviously have to be updated on every change. Redboot then boots these > directly. The root is stored in the initrd (this avoids having to twiddle > RedBoot variables on install, etc.., I gather). > > What would be the best way to have some kind of support for retaining > old kernel/initrds and booting those? (And is anyone working on this?) > > Possible methods: > > - APEX support for N2100 (??) (as a 2nd stage)
I'd be glad to do the work if someone wanted to supply the hardware. > - A small, static Linux env in flash to act as bootloader via kexec ? > (suggested by suihkulokki on #debian-arm) > - custom N2100 bootloader > - ? > > The 2nd one seems the easiest to hack together - though possibly not the > fastest boot (but probably not so much extra to matter). Why not use the initrd in memory to load a second kernel and initrd from disk? Then you wouldn't care about the kernel/initrd in flash so much? Cheers. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org