On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 05:53:39PM +0200, jf simon wrote: > Vivek Goyal wrote: > > >To boot into second kernel, you don't need any other bootloader. Kexec > >itself is a bootloader. Just specify the path to your second kernel on > >disk and kexec will retrieve the image from disk and load into the memory. > > > >Thanks > >Vivek > > > > > > Thanks. Sounds cool. > Here is what I am trying to: > I use an IBM Maple (IBM 970 ppc64 cpu) platform. It uses the PIBS > firmware. But I want PIBS to load an embedded linux out of flash. Then, > from that embedded linux environment, I want to load a linux kernel from > the disk. So you are saying that I could use kexec to load the linux > kernel fromthe disk? >
You should be able to do that as long as your embedded linux kernel has got kexec support and this kernel is able to mount the disk where second kernel is residing. Thanks Vivek _______________________________________________ fastboot mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/fastboot
