Subject: Re: What calls init?
To: Peter Fairbrother <peter.fairbrother@ntlworld.com>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/27/2002 00:44:12
Peter Fairbrother wrote:
> ( I am trying to make a single CD that boots and runs on two platforms, i386
> and macppc. Managed to get them to boot and run an separate CD's, and both
> to _start_ booting on one CD (anyone want coasters!).
What is the exact purpose of this? The way that the multi-architecture
NetBSD release CDs work is to use kernels that have an inbuilt ramdisk
with the root filesystem on that ramdisk. That way, all you need to
worry about is loading the kernel - everything else is inside the kernel
itself.
Simon.
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