Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:46:32 -0500 | From | Adam Lazur <> | Subject | Re: Q: Linux rebooting directly into linux. |
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Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xmission.com) said: > Michael Rothwell <rothwell@holly-springs.nc.us> writes: > > This would rock. One place I can think of using it is with distro > > installers. The installer boots a generic i386 kernel, and then installs > > an optimized (i.e, PIII, etc.) kernel for run-time. > > This would rock? It already does. Of course the installers need > to actually uses this.
Actually, along the lines of what Scyld uses two kernel monte for with their Beowulf2 distribution.
They boot a network enabled kernel which pulls a kernel off of a server and then uses two kernel monte to boot with that one. This allows you to centrally admin your cluster with one server. Good stuff...
.adam
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