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Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> writes:

> Hi!
>
>> > While that would certainly be nifty, I think we're arguably starting
>> > from the wrong point here. Why are we booting a kernel, trying to poke
>> > the hardware back into some sort of mock-quiescent state, freeing memory
>> > and then (finally) overwriting the entire contents of RAM rather than
>> > just doing all of this from the bootloader?
>
> Doing it from the bootloader sounds attractive... but it is lot of
> work. I'm essentially using linux as a bootloader.
>
> Patch for grub welcome.

Well. We actually have first class support for using linux as a
bootloader. So you could use linux and do whatever dance you are
doing from a bootloader if you felt the desire.

That might make the dance a little easier.

Eric
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