> BTW, have you looked at the petitboot bootloader? For > the most part it is a better choice than kboot. > It provides essentially all the functionality that > kboot does, plus more, it is easier to build, and it > is a currently maintained project. > > The petitboot package can be built for x86. That is > how much of its development is done, but OpenWRT does > not yet support an x86 build of petitboot (that > would create a grub second stage image). My plan is > to add x86 PC support next. I don't think it is very > difficult to do, I just have not had time to do it. petitboot looks interesting; but I need the tool chain ready to go for x86. Currently For our project, we are using a patched version of kboot which runs on x86. I do see some benefit for petitboot with the graphical menu. Ideally we'd need a version which reads each partition looking for multiple /boot kernels and present a method to select each one using a alpha char. Kinda like the old System Commander app. In my config; I'll have multiple linux kernels on the disk. I envision having Android, Moblin2.0, and several other flavors of linux in partitions and needing to boot to each at runtime. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/attachments/20100115/4b51f445/attachment.htm>
