Subject: Re: boot without init.
To: Chris G Demetriou <Chris_G_Demetriou@BALVENIE.PDL.CS.CMU.EDU>
From: Head Anarchy Conquest Knight Esquire of the Realm <greywolf@defender.VAS.viewlogic.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 10/10/1995 10:02:15
I see a couple possible fixes for this:
* Allow one to enter "-i path_to_init" to the bootloader and have it
pass that to the kernel
* If something goes wrong with init (i.e. it dies) it should detect
that somehow the exec failed and move on to the next one.
The first one is a bit more flexible. I don't see that it would be all
that hard to implement. The first one is also more useful in the case that
init simply hangs.
--*greywolf;
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