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Re: support split /boot partition
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Vincent Legoll |
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Re: support split /boot partition |
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Sun, 2 May 2021 23:59:36 +0200 |
Hello,
On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 11:17 PM Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> wrote:
> Another more complicated option would be to use kexec; where you boot
> one kernel and maybe a minimal rootfs, and load a new kernel and initrd
> into ram, which uses the kernel drivers and then runs "kexec" to switch
> to the newly loaded kernel... not sure how reliable that is, but it is
> possible.
This is actually usable and used, see petitboot or linuxboot.
https://github.com/open-power/petitboot
https://www.linuxboot.org
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Vincent Legoll