From: Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@gmail.com>
To: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>
Cc: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>, Joshua Branson <jbranso@dismail.de>
Subject: Re: support split /boot partition
Date: Sun, 2 May 2021 23:59:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEwRq=q7MLh2d+Vk4bViUd5tqK29UONPD0BzX8X=5TmhsFmdzg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871raovntj.fsf@yucca>
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
--
Vincent Legoll
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-02 22:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-30 19:19 Any way to boot Guix with root partition elsewhere? Vladilen Kozin
2021-05-01 3:06 ` Joshua Branson
2021-05-01 13:01 ` Vladilen Kozin
2021-05-02 22:08 ` Joshua Branson
2021-05-03 12:55 ` Jonathan McHugh
2021-05-02 21:16 ` support split /boot partition Vagrant Cascadian
2021-05-02 21:59 ` Vincent Legoll [this message]
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