Tyson D Sawyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > > The place to start is with mkelfImage with an unpatched kernel. That gets > > you ramdisk support. > > > Thanks for you other reply on mkelfImage. Esp. given you latest patches and the > > lack of docs, I didn't even know where to start. > > Is there an overview of how to boot a 2nd kernel from linux anywhere?
It probably needs to be built. But basically the interface for my stuff is essentially the same, as from LinuxBIOS. But basically the interface is kexec(filename, commandline). And you want things like network interfaces downed at the moment... > So, if I understand things right, Linux 2.4 doesn't need any patches to boot > from Linuxbios? I don't need any but your mileage may vary. > What about configuring IRQ's from an IRQ table? Previously, I > had to apply a tiny patch (roughly a one liner) to get it to configure the IRQ's > from an irq_table. I never had that problem so your one liner might still be necessary. > Does it sound like it might get accepted as a "standard" such that LILO and Grub > might use it and the kernel expects to be booted this way? It sounds like the > right thing to do as it would take a lot of the magic out of booting > kernels. It is too soon to tell yet. But it should be easy to patch Grub as it has some amount of ELF support already. I intend to do my best to make it a standard option. Eric
