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    Subjectbooting the kernel when ia32 processor is already in protected mode
    [wondering if anyone has tried this before]

    i've got a computer that has (already built-in) an impressive bootstrap-loader.
    it can load an image from disk, network (rcp, ftp, tftp) or from flash.

    here's the caveat: it is a vxworks boot loader.

    it can load a Linux kernel (provided it is a raw ELF file, such as that
    normally kept in arch/i386/boot/compress/bvmlinux), and execute at the
    appropriate place (0x100000).

    unfortunately, the processor is already in protected-mode by the time the
    linux kernel starts running. this is where things 'stop'.

    anyone have any clues as to how one would get it working?
    it'd be a shame to have to remove the bootstrap loader that already exists
    -- re-creating the same functionality would be painful.


    cheers,

    lincoln.

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