> 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. May I jump in and ask if you know about kexecboot? http://projects.linuxtogo.org/mediawiki/index.php/Kexecboot It's just kernel + minimal initramfs : kexec and kexecboot. We would need more testing on other archs: we mostly build for arm using OpenEmbedded. Regards Andrea
