>> I was wondering how easy that would be to add a "boot once" feature > FWIW: the Amiga port had a /dev/reload in its very early days, where > you could cp a kernel too, which would then be bootet. I'm not sure > this is easy to make on a PC platform.
kexec stuff? I've occasionally wondered why more ports don't implement it. I ran into it on...hpcmips, maybe. Something that had WinCE in ROM and used it as a booter, I think, though those memories are pretty fuzzy by now. Certainly would speed up many reboots. I may have a look at it; I was recently reading early boot code and I don't recall anything that would make it difficult. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
