Booting Linux from an already running linux

[Tom Rini]

On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 10:05:50AM +0100, Anders Blomdell wrote:
>
> Now that I have a Linux running with networking on a PrPMC800 running as
> NON-MONARCH, I wonder if anybody knows about a program that can start a
> fresh linux kernel from the filesystem. The reason I need this, is that the
> PrPMC800 PPC-Bug does not support network booting for NON-MONARCH operation
> (neither have I found any alternative that does), and downloading megabytes
> over the serial line is not very tempting.

The other option here, is to put a kernel into FLASH.  Google around
for bugboot, but IIRC, it's just a matter of 'make zImage', and then
normal mojo for writing a binary into the FLASH to boot, ensuring you
use zImage.bugboot, not zImage.prpmc800, or whatever.

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Tom Rini (TR1265)
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