From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753574Ab2DARum (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Apr 2012 13:50:42 -0400 Received: from merlin.infradead.org ([205.233.59.134]:40680 "EHLO merlin.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753154Ab2DARuD (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Apr 2012 13:50:03 -0400 Message-ID: <1333302596.32308.28.camel@clam> Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Petitboot now available as Debian package From: Geoff Levand To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Keith Packard , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Jeremy Kerr , "Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu)" Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2012 10:49:56 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.3-0ubuntu3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi All, Just for anyone interested, there is now a packaging of Petitboot in Debian that allows you to install it as a kind of reboot utility. This is mainly intended for developers who want a convenient way of either rebooting to kernels served from remote machines or want a way to select a kernel and/or boot options from a menu without going through a cold reboot to get to a first stage bootloader menu. The Debian package should also work on other recent Debian derivatives, I've tested it on Ubuntu 12.04. I've recently added a grub2 config file parser to petitboot, so it can now parse kboot, yaboot and grub2 config files. This makes it easier to use on system that have yaboot or grub2 as their primary bootloader. Comments, usage reports, etc. would be greatly appreciated. About Petitboot: Petitboot is a platform independent bootloader based on the Linux kexec warm reboot mechanism. Petitboot supports loading kernel and initrd image files from any mountable Linux device, plus can load image files from the network using TFTP, NFS, HTTP, HTTPS, and SCP. Petitboot can boot any operating system supported by kexec. More info about petitboot is available at its home page: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/geoff/petitboot/petitboot.html Some info about the Debian package can be found through my QA page: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=geoff%40infradead.org -Geoff