[LinuxBIOS] [Fastboot] Re: [Kboot-general] Re: small 64bit initrd

[Steve Gehlbach]

If you could provide a roadmap on how to do this, or even better have a 
chance to do it yourself for 2.4.27+ (2.4.32 would be great), that would 
_really_ be useful.

2.4 is a smaller kernel than 2.6, and for supporting legacy systems that 
only boot from floppies, I regularly use it on a single boot floppy, 
using uclibc and busybox, along with e2fs tools and also dialog, for 
lots of support software we develop.  I guess we have a thing about 
getting it all on one floppy, but it would be helpful if we could jump 
into a 2.6 kernel on CD, for some situations.  Legacy systems won't boot 
from CD in most cases.

Steve G.




Eric W. Biederman wrote:

>Richard Smith <smithbone at gmail.com> writes:
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>>On 1/12/06, Lu, Yinghai <yinghai.lu at amd.com> wrote:> Kexec support 2.4?>
>>Back when Eric started it did.  2.6.x was still very new.  This wasseveral years
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>2.4 is still fairly easy to get going.  The problem is all of the related
>hardware fixes which are hard to identify and back port.
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>Eric
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