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From: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
To: "Bizhan Gholikhamseh (bgholikh)" <bgholikh@cisco.com>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: newbie question: kexec linux-based bootstrap
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:41:26 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <496CE056.5040904@am.sony.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F795765B112E7344AF36AA911279641508F6AFCB@xmb-sjc-212.amer.cisco.com>

Hi,

Bizhan Gholikhamseh (bgholikh) wrote:
> I have been investigating how to boot Linux as bootstrap to boot another
> Linux.

The ps3 uses this method for its bootloaders.  The linux kernel and a
small file system are put into the system's flash memory.

You can find some (old) info about the petitboot bootloader here:

  http://ozlabs.org/~jk/projects/petitboot/

Another kexec based bootloader is kboot:

  http://kboot.sourceforge.net/

-Geoff


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      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-01-13 18:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-12 11:29 newbie question: kexec linux-based bootstrap Bizhan Gholikhamseh (bgholikh)
2009-01-12 13:09 ` Sven Anders
2009-01-12 22:00   ` Bizhan Gholikhamseh (bgholikh)
2009-01-12 22:04     ` Randy Dunlap
2009-01-12 22:44       ` Bizhan Gholikhamseh (bgholikh)
2009-01-12 22:54         ` Randy Dunlap
2009-01-12 23:07           ` Bizhan Gholikhamseh (bgholikh)
2009-01-12 23:15             ` Randy Dunlap
2009-01-13  4:32             ` M. Mohan Kumar
2009-01-13 14:49   ` David N. Lombard
2009-01-13 15:42     ` Bizhan Gholikhamseh (bgholikh)
2009-01-13 16:43       ` David N. Lombard
2009-01-13 18:41 ` Geoff Levand [this message]

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