From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from outbound-wa4.frontbridge.com ([216.32.181.16] helo=WA4EHSOBE004.bigfish.com) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.69 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1LMoCm-0004de-4t for kexec@lists.infradead.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:41:38 +0000 Message-ID: <496CE056.5040904@am.sony.com> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:41:26 -0800 From: Geoff Levand MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: newbie question: kexec linux-based bootstrap References: In-Reply-To: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: kexec-bounces@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: kexec-bounces+dwmw2=infradead.org@lists.infradead.org To: "Bizhan Gholikhamseh (bgholikh)" Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org 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 _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec