Re: LOBOS

Larry McVoy
2001-11-20T02:18:00Z

I've been wanting Linux which can boot Linux for a long time.
See http://www.bitmover.com/ml for some slides on why, for those of you
who are guess, yes it is the same OS cluster idea for SMP scaling I've
been pushing on for 7 years. It's finally getting some attention as
well, the IBM guys are looking at it, a FreeBSD guy is looking at it,
and the UML guy thinks he can do a UML implementation in such a way
that putting it on real hardware would be a "simple" port.

On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 01:04:55AM +0100, RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado wrote:
> Hello all :))
>
> I've reading a bit about booting Linux within Linux, and I'm
> pretty interested in this issue. The point here is, will a stable
> kernel support this in a near future?.
>
> There are a few alternatives like 'LOBOS' (which, IMHO, is the
> most portable, easy and small of all), 'bootimg', the two kernel
> monte, etc...
>
> This will be very useful for a lot of thinks: netbooting, initrd
> replacement, kernel switching and testing, etc...
>
> Have you think about adding this to the kernel. It won't enlarge
> the kernel and IMHO is a very good thing to have. Of course I'm not a
> kernel guru and I don't know what kind of problems this would arise.
>
> Have fun :)
> Raúl
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