On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 8:33 AM, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 8:24 AM, David Leimbach<leimy2k@gmail.com> wrote:

> Could be, I've never had the luxury of trying it all out... however I
> thought a minimal linux from coreboot/linuxbios (I think it was called
> linuxbios when this was tried) could kexec plan 9.

Actually i wrote something in 1999 called lobos that preceded kexec,
and maybe even /dev/reboot (not sure).

I still recall a linux groupie telling me that "Linus would never
accept linux rebooting linux into the kernel" ... ha!

I've got a reasonable summary article of kernels booting kernels --
all 5 versions of them -- in some cluster 200x paper. It concluded
that Plan 9 was the cleanest of the lot. Surprise!

Did that pre-date the "two kernel monte" that used to be used on Scyld's "Beowulf" thing?

Also, Eric, the 9atom.iso works on my older AMD machine for installation! THANKS! :-)

ron