<quote who="Peter Hardy"> > The biggest restriction I can think of right now is passing parameters to > the kernel.
(Plus there's the "where your kernel must reside" issue, but that's kinda easy to sort out if you're this crazy.) > Setting a different console resolution, starting in single user mode, or > my favourite rescue technique, specifying a different location for init, > suddenly become impossible. So you'd have to build the kernel with those parameters! Comedy! (That's a bummer about not being able to boot the kernel directly... But really only for use cases where it would have some utility, like embedded boxes and stuff. Thanks Pete and Jaq for mentioning it.) - Jeff -- LinuxWorldExpo: Johannesburg, South Africa http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.za/ "Stay away from my house, you freak! Can't you see that everyone is buying station wagons?" - Neal Stephenson, ITBWTCL -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
