LOBOS

LOBOS

[RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado]

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    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

Re: LOBOS

[Tim Hockin]

> I've been wanting Linux which can boot Linux for a long time.

This is what Cobalt firmware has been doing FOREVER.  We didn't solve it
generically, but it works marvelously for what it does.

Re: LOBOS

[Larry McVoy]

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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Re: LOBOS

[victor]

hi read that url ;)
http://www.missl.cs.umd.edu/linuxbios/msg03992.html


  victor
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 RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado <dervishd@jazzfree.com>
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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Re: LOBOS

[Erik Andersen]

On Mon Nov 19, 2001 at 06:03:09PM -0800, Tim Hockin wrote:
> > I've been wanting Linux which can boot Linux for a long time.
> 
> This is what Cobalt firmware has been doing FOREVER.  We didn't solve it
> generically, but it works marvelously for what it does.

The netwinder firmware is a stripped down Linux kernel 
which boots another linux kernel.  
    ftp://ftp.netwinder.org/pub/ccc/firmware/

And the Linux BIOS project does that also 
    http://www.acl.lanl.gov/linuxbios/

 -Erik

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Re: LOBOS

[RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado]

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    Hello Larry (this time is correct ;)))

>I've been wanting Linux which can boot Linux for a long time.

    Me too. Really this is a feature that no other OS has. And it is
a very useful and interesting feature (as you cas see on the Cobalt).

    Raúl

Re: LOBOS

[Werner Almesberger]

RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado wrote:
>     Me too. Really this is a feature that no other OS has.

No way ;-) Markus Wild implemented this about eight years ago for
SVR4 on the Amiga.

- Werner

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Re: LOBOS

[RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado]

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    Hello Werner :)

>>     Me too. Really this is a feature that no other OS has.
>No way ;-) Markus Wild implemented this about eight years ago for
>SVR4 on the Amiga.

    Well, then it's a feature that no other PC OS has ;)))) I didn't
know that of the Amiga :)), but it's great. Seems that all good
thinks were already implemented in the Amiga ;)))

    Raúl