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Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:46:32 -0500
From: Adam Lazur <alazur@progeny.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Michael Rothwell <rothwell@holly-springs.nc.us>,
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Subject: Re: Q: Linux rebooting directly into linux.
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Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xmission.com) said:
> Michael Rothwell <rothwell@holly-springs.nc.us> writes:
> > This would rock. One place I can think of using it is with distro
> > installers. The installer boots a generic i386 kernel, and then installs
> > an optimized (i.e, PIII, etc.) kernel for run-time.
> 
> This would rock?  It already does.  Of course the installers need
> to actually uses this.

Actually, along the lines of what Scyld uses two kernel monte for with
their Beowulf2 distribution.

They boot a network enabled kernel which pulls a kernel off of a server
and then uses two kernel monte to boot with that one.  This allows you
to centrally admin your cluster with one server. Good stuff...

.adam

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[ Adam Lazur, NOW Monkey                          <alazur@progeny.com> ]
[ Progeny Linux Systems                             http://progeny.com ]
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