New subject: booting other oses

25 Aug 2004


      Ron,
So any instructions to use kernel in flash.
1. I guess use filo to load the elf ( the elf will be in flash, and filo
will be in the ROM)
2. the elf is made by mkelfImage from Kernel and ramdisk.
How can the kernel load another kerkel, via beoboot????
Regards
YH
-----Original Message-----
From: ron minnich [mailto:rminnich@lanl.gov] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 7:32 AM
To: Dave Aubin
Cc: Jakob Praher; linuxbios
Subject: RE: booting other oses
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Dave Aubin wrote:
...
What is your goal to want to use Linux bios?  If your goal is to get 
It to load a Linux kernel, then try etherboot.
goodness, this question takes us back to our roots.
The fact is, the linux kernel is just about the best thing you can use to
boot another kernel!
Dave, think about this: are you planning to write etherboot drivers for
myrinet, quadrics, infiniband, SCI, or other new networks? How about all
those ugly, complicated SCSI disk systems? If yes, you're nuts and you are
going to duplicate a lot of work that Linux does better. If no, then
etherboot can't even be used on our 1024-node Pink cluster (which has no
Ethernet, only myrinet).
Another weird thing we've found: Linux, on faster machines with lots of 
network interfaces in them, boots nodes faster than etherboot! weird but 
true.
I think you are not looking at a big enough picture. Etherboot is fine for 
a lot of cases, but if you can put Linux in flash, it's a LOT better, and 
as the processors get faster, Linux is faster too.
ron
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