On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Tyson D Sawyer wrote: > Is there an overview of how to boot a 2nd kernel from linux anywhere?
not yet, but if you want to write one up :-) > > The trivial ide spin up is to include a kernel command like: "hda=0,0,0 hdc=cdrom" > > Which just tells the kernel something is there so it attempts to spin it up. At > > least with recent 2.4.x kernels this works. So you can do this patch free. > > Cool. I think I maybe recall hearing about that trick at one point, but > I had never tried it. let me know if it works, it has not been 100% for me. > So, if I understand things right, Linux 2.4 doesn't need any patches to > boot from Linuxbios? What about configuring IRQ's from an IRQ table? ummm ... maybe. I have a patch now for 'kick reboot hardware' that I think we'll always need. It works on PIIX4 southbridges, now, which you may need. ron
