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| Started by | cmk128@gmail.com |
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| First post | 2012-06-03 12:13 -0700 |
| Last post | 2012-06-04 07:04 -0500 |
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bootloader? cmk128@gmail.com - 2012-06-03 12:13 -0700
Re: bootloader? John Reiser <jreiserfl@comcast.net> - 2012-06-03 13:05 -0700
Re: bootloader? Bob Hauck <postmaster@avalanche.org> - 2012-06-03 18:34 -0400
Re: bootloader? Balwinder S Dheeman <bsd.SANSPAM@anu.homelinux.net> - 2012-06-04 07:56 +0530
Re: bootloader? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2012-06-04 07:04 -0500
| From | cmk128@gmail.com |
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| Date | 2012-06-03 12:13 -0700 |
| Subject | bootloader? |
| Message-ID | <93df2ffe-1c5b-407e-9ef4-c3e5d881e72b@googlegroups.com> |
Hi All except grub and lilo, what boot loader can load an ELF kernel? thanks from Peter (cmk128@hotmail.com)
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| From | John Reiser <jreiserfl@comcast.net> |
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| Date | 2012-06-03 13:05 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <3NWdnUrkDvDwXlbSRVn_vwA@giganews.com> |
| In reply to | #5481 |
> except grub and lilo, what boot loader can load an ELF kernel? When 1KB was the blocksize of most existing ext2 (about 2003 or so), then http://bitwagon.com/ftp/e2boot4c.tgz could load an ELF kernel and initrd by name lookup from the ext2 filesystem, using only 446 bytes of code in MBR plus 1020 bytes of code in the ext2 bootblock. Adapting to 4KB blocksize might be straightforward. Adapting to the evolution of Linux kernel boot protocol might require more bytes, possibly restricting some features such as lookup of symlinks, etc. --
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| From | Bob Hauck <postmaster@avalanche.org> |
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| Date | 2012-06-03 18:34 -0400 |
| Message-ID | <slrnjsnpjk.oao.postmaster@bigbird.haucks.org> |
| In reply to | #5481 |
On Sun, 3 Jun 2012 12:13:50 -0700 (PDT), cmk128@gmail.com <cmk128@gmail.com> wrote: > except grub and lilo, what boot loader can load an ELF kernel? > thanks UBoot? -- Bob Hauck
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| From | Balwinder S Dheeman <bsd.SANSPAM@anu.homelinux.net> |
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| Date | 2012-06-04 07:56 +0530 |
| Message-ID | <g0jt99xgu8.ln2@news.homelinux.net> |
| In reply to | #5485 |
On 06/04/2012 04:04 AM, Bob Hauck wrote: > On Sun, 3 Jun 2012 12:13:50 -0700 (PDT), cmk128@gmail.com <cmk128@gmail.com> wrote: > >> except grub and lilo, what boot loader can load an ELF kernel? >> thanks > > UBoot? syslinux -- Balwinder S "bdheeman" Dheeman (http://werc.homelinux.net/contact/)
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| From | Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> |
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| Date | 2012-06-04 07:04 -0500 |
| Message-ID | <97qdnQvw5P7WOVHSnZ2dnUVZ_vudnZ2d@posted.localnet> |
| In reply to | #5488 |
At Mon, 04 Jun 2012 07:56:56 +0530 Balwinder S Dheeman <bsd.SANSPAM@anu.homelinux.net> wrote:
>
> On 06/04/2012 04:04 AM, Bob Hauck wrote:
> > On Sun, 3 Jun 2012 12:13:50 -0700 (PDT), cmk128@gmail.com <cmk128@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> except grub and lilo, what boot loader can load an ELF kernel?
> >> thanks
> >
> > UBoot?
>
> syslinux
Which includes pxelinux (bootp / boot from network) and isolinux (boot
from CD-ROM).
>
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