kboot system loader update 18.08.2006
This is the latest update patch to the kboot based system loader from the kboot mailing list.
Applying this patch in addition to the previous patches
leads to the following result:
The new and extended documentation contains the detailed
description and a design document:
kboot system loader patches
On this page you can find the collected patches that have been sent to the
kboot mailing list.
Here are the patches against kboot-10 as received from the list:
As with the previous version I applied all the patches to
Werner Almesberger's kboot which
leads to the following result:
The documentation for the new version can be found in the following document:
This file is a 'ready to use' ramdisk (intel,32bit). The examples for a GRUB
menu.lst and a kboot_sl.config worked on my system:
The kboot_admin script allows to modify this ramdisk e.g. if modules like
network or filesystem drivers are missing:
old patches
Here are the old patches against kboot-9 as received from the list:
While building the package for my own tests I thought it would be usefull for others to
have the source and documentation in a ready to use form. After applying the patches to
Werner Almesberger's kboot you get the following result:
The documentation can be found in the following document:
Happy testing!
Dennis Merbach
Last modified: Thu Sep 14 16:40:40 CEST 2006