Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Feb 2000 17:46:35 -0500 (EST) | From | Lars Kellogg-Stedman <> | Subject | Load linux...from linux? |
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While watching my system boot this morning, waiting for it to finish scanning the various SCSI controllers, I found myself wondering if maybe there was a way to avoid all this delay.
If loadlin can load linux from under DOS, and BootX can load linux from under MacOS, is it possible to write something similar that runs linux?
For instance, it would be nice if the last action when rebooting a linux system were (optionally) to load and execute a new kernel image, rather than reset the system.
Or better yet, shutting down a linux system would return one to a boot loader prompt from which one could select a new kernel (kind of a poor-man's open firmware).
Has anyone worked on something like this?
-- Lars
-- Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars@larsshack.org> --> http://www.larsshack.org/
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