Boot Windows Please!

Stefan Reinauer stepan at openbios.org
Wed Jan 26 21:01:01 CET 2005


* Adam Talbot <talbotx at comcast.net> [050127 06:52]:
> -Ron (Linuxbios team)
> Humm, had one of my strange ideas.  Would it be possible to use the
> linuxbios kernel as the system kernel??  So instead of calling a new kernel
> through FILO or booting from etherboot, could I just have Linux bios call
> INIT, like a normal kernel.  I am looking to get the best possible boot
> time. 1 kernel loads MUCH faster then 2 kernels.
> You thoughts??

It has no scheduler, but otherwise the payload is pretty much "init".
No libc and such, too

Stefan



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