On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 7:55 AM, Bizhan Gholikhamseh (bgholikh)
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Hi all,
Is there any way to use Linux as bootloader to boot Linux? It might sound
crazy but I need to figure out this.
Many thanks in advance,
Bizhan
Do you mean running Linux as application
El Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 06:25:55PM -0800 Bizhan Gholikhamseh (bgholikh) ha dit:
Is there any way to use Linux as bootloader to boot Linux? It might sound
crazy but I need to figure out this.
not sure what you are looking for, maybe
http://www.coreboot.org/ could be interesting for you
Hi all,
Is there any way to use Linux as bootloader to boot Linux? It might
sound crazy but I need to figure out this.
Many thanks in advance,
Bizhan
Bizhan,
Yes it is do-able you can actually use the zImage header to bootstrap
the kernel. You can modify linux/arch/platform/boot/compressed/
head.S and add the boot loader logic there. Then you need to place
your zImage in the location your platform normally loads the boot
loader. You
Bizhan,
Have a look at 'kexec' . It may not meet 100% your requirement but comes
close.
Thanks,
Kalpesh
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Mark Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Bizhan,
Yes it is do-able you can actually use the zImage header to bootstrap the
kernel. You can modify
