Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 09 Aug 1999 09:40:32 -0700 | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | | Subject | Re: Kernels > 1M |
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Werner Almesberger wrote: > > The main reason I'm writing lbcon is because I think it will make doing > > fancy stuff with initrd a lot less painful, and it should be easy to put > > a nice user interface on it. That's the theory, at least... > > Actually, I think the boot loader isn't the best place for fancy stuff. > I'd rather put this into the kernel, where I have a much nicer environment, > and where things can be done once for all architectures. initrd was a first > step in this direction.
I think the kernel is largely by definition too late, in particular because one of the first things the Linux kernel does is to burn all the bridges to the BIOS. I *was* looking into the possibility of using a modified kernel (similar to MILO), but I think it was more painful than anything.
> Something I'd like to try later this year is to allow a running Linux > kernel to directly boot another Linux kernel. This should allow for very > rapid test cycles for kernel development, and it should also allow all the > fancy stuff to be done under Linux, including loading of kernels from any > file system supported by the kernel without the need for prior > registration.
Catch-22?
-hpa
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