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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Michael Rothwell <rothwell@holly-springs.nc.us>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Q: Linux rebooting directly into linux.
Date: 11 Nov 2000 12:46:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1k8aacmvo.fsf@frodo.biederman.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m17l6deey7.fsf@frodo.biederman.org> <3A0ABB0C.99075A61@holly-springs.nc.us>
In-Reply-To: Michael Rothwell's message of "Thu, 09 Nov 2000 09:56:12 -0500"

Michael Rothwell <rothwell@holly-springs.nc.us> writes:

> "Eric W. Biederman" wrote:
> > 
> > I have recently developed a patch that allows linux to directly boot
> > into another linux kernel.  
> 
> This would rock. One place I can think of using it is with distro
> installers. The installer boots a generic i386 kernel, and then installs
> an optimized (i.e, PIII, etc.) kernel for run-time.

This would rock?  It already does.  Of course the installers need
to actually uses this.

Eric


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-11-11 20:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-09  8:18 Q: Linux rebooting directly into linux Eric W. Biederman
     [not found] ` <3A0ABB0C.99075A61@holly-springs.nc.us>
2000-11-11 19:46   ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2000-11-11 22:46     ` Adam Lazur
2000-11-12  0:06       ` Eric W. Biederman
     [not found] ` <20001109113524.C14133@animx.eu.org>
2000-11-11 20:05   ` Eric W. Biederman
2000-11-11 20:33     ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-12  0:09       ` Eric W. Biederman
2000-11-12  0:32         ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-12  6:31           ` Eric W. Biederman
2000-11-11 22:11 ` Adam Lazur
2000-11-12  0:00   ` Eric W. Biederman
2000-11-14 14:49     ` Werner Almesberger
2000-11-16 17:33       ` Eric W. Biederman
2000-11-19  2:24         ` Werner Almesberger
2000-11-19  7:20           ` Eric W. Biederman
2000-11-19 13:25             ` Werner Almesberger
2000-11-19 20:14               ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-01-18 16:18               ` Eric W. Biederman
2000-11-14  8:13 ` Erik Andersen
2000-11-14 14:59   ` Eric W. Biederman
2000-11-15 23:30     ` Erik Andersen
2000-11-16  6:19       ` Eric W. Biederman

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