On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Ben Stoltz wrote: > I believe that the right way to do this is to boot over the net first, get > the parameters for the particular session (OS, boot device, etc.), then load > the OS from the specified boot device and transfer control.
we can do this today. We mostly do it now with the bproc stuff, in which the flash-based kernel contacts a control node, gets boot parameters and then boots a kernel based on those parameters. It's easy. > Is LinuxBIOS able to do this sort of thing? Is it within a month or two of > programmer's time to being able to do such a thing? To get exactly what you want for your uses, and make it "shrink-wrap ready", and get the fiber channel all integrated into linux, is probably 1 person-quarter. ron
