IBM Intellistation 275

[David Woodhouse]

On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 08:24 -0500, Terry Polzin wrote:
> Only issue here as I see it, is that you need to have a running system
> to set this all up.  I would suggest that a smaller initrd image is
> needed. OR we need updated frimware from IBM.

Neither of those are particularly easy to achieve. You fight a losing
battle if you try to limit the size of the initrd, and you risk losing a
bunch of features. And firmware upgrades are just never going to happen.

What might be worth looking at is the Linux-as-bootloader approach (as
we used successfully on PS3). Make a simple kernel+initrd whose *sole*
purpose is to kexec the *real* kernel+initrd. It's horrid, but as a
workaround for older machines/firmware it might suffice. 

-- 
dwmw2

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