On 19 Dec 2003, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
What Pink does works. I can't throw J. Random kernel at beoboot and have that work. I can't throw memtest86 at it and have that work. I can't use an SMP aware kernel with beoboot. And last I looked beoboot had a bulky user space that makes it hard to squeeze into flash as well. So beoboot with 2 kernel monte works for a certain interesting subset of cases but it does not handle the general case.
ok, gotcha. I don't think I would use beoboot for the general flash case, I think what Andrew Ip set up with kernel+kexec+initrd with some utils is the right model.
Except possibly for the exotic driver case 512KB is a large enough FLASH chip to put in both LinuxBIOS and a kernel. You have to work at it with a 512KB flash chip but it is doable today.
gotcha.
thanks
ron