> BTW, have you looked at the petitboot bootloader? For
> the most part it is a better choice than kboot.
> It provides essentially all the functionality that
> kboot does, plus more, it is easier to build, and it
> is a currently maintained project.
>
> The petitboot package can be built for x86. That is
> how much of its development is done, but OpenWRT does
> not yet support an x86 build of petitboot (that
> would create a grub second stage image). My plan is
> to add x86 PC support next. I don't think it is very
> difficult to do, I just have not had time to do it.
petitboot looks interesting; but I need the tool chain ready to go for x86.
Currently For our project, we are using a patched version of kboot which runs
on x86.
I do see some benefit for petitboot with the graphical menu. Ideally we'd need
a version which reads each partition looking for multiple /boot kernels and
present a method to select each one using a alpha char. Kinda like the old
System Commander app.
In my config; I'll have multiple linux kernels on the disk. I envision having
Android, Moblin2.0, and several other flavors of linux in partitions and
needing to boot to each at runtime.
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