Re: [SLUG] booting linux without grub or lilo

[jam@xxxxxxxxx]

On Tuesday 02 May 2006 13:33, slug-request@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 15:18 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > <quote who="Kevin Saenz">
> >
> > > Just have a question is there a way to boot linux without using a
> > > bootloader.
> >
> > So, in much the same way as you can copy a kernel to a floppy and it
> > 'just boots', I'm sure there is some way of doing a similar thing from
> > your hard drive. But it's relatively dangerous, and I'm sure it will
> > involve a bunch of annoying restrictions in what you can do.

For one of my embedded projects where boot time was an issue, I used grub,
no wait, 2.6, no modules and from power-on till all running was a smidge under 
5 secs on a 533 VIA eden with flash and 32M.

I don't think the boot-loader contributed more than 10s ms

James