Loading alternate kernel and/or rootfs

Rod Whitby rod at whitby.id.au
Mon Jan 29 05:38:17 CET 2007


Are there any firm plans for loading alternate kernels and rootfs from
external (or "internal" uSD) storage (or even over NFS)?

I need to do something for the MokoSlug distribution, and I'd want to do
it the same way on the Neo and on it's companion server.

A number of people have suggested "altboot"
(http://blog.hentges.net/?page_id=50) when I asked this on the OE
mailing list.  NSLU2-Linux currently has "turnup" functionality which
performs a similar function (I'm not suggesting we use that
functionality, as it is very much tied to the NSLU2).

Mickey, Harold, are there any other alternatives that you see, or should
I just hunker down and start hacking on altboot?

-- Rod Whitby
-- NSLU2-Linux Project Lead




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