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In Search Of: Old Module: "Two Kernel Monte"

DISCUSSION Andy Pfiffer 4 participants 4 messages Jan 22, 2002

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I'm looking for some old code from March 2000 mentioned in the "Linux loading Linux" thread from the LKML:

	http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0003.2/1339.html

Briefly, the module would load a new kernel image, ramdisk, command line etc. by trying to put the system back into a post-firmware state and launch the kernel. It apparently lacked support for SMP systems.

The original link to the code is now a dead-end:

http://www.scyld.com/software/monte.html

and the original author is unreachable by the address listed.

If you've got a copy of the code stashed somewhere, or if you know of more recent work in this area, I would appreciate a pointer.

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Andy Pfiffer
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http://www.scyld.com/products/beowulf/software/monte.html

google, man best friend :)

Mircea C.

Quoted 18 lines · Andy Pfiffer

I'm looking for some old code from March 2000 mentioned in the "Linux loading Linux" thread from the LKML:

        http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0003.2/1339.html

Briefly, the module would load a new kernel image, ramdisk, command line etc. by trying to put the system back into a post-firmware state and launch the kernel. It apparently lacked support for SMP systems.

The original link to the code is now a dead-end:

http://www.scyld.com/software/monte.html

and the original author is unreachable by the address listed.

If you've got a copy of the code stashed somewhere, or if you know of more recent work in this area, I would appreciate a pointer.

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In reply to Andy Pfiffer
Quoted 4 lines · In article <1011739306.11541.30.camel@andyp> you wrote:

Briefly, the module would load a new kernel image, ramdisk, command line etc. by trying to put the system back into a post-firmware state and launch the kernel. It apparently lacked support for SMP systems.

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The original link to the code is now a dead-end:

http://www.scyld.com/software/monte.html

and the original author is unreachable by the address listed.

If you've got a copy of the code stashed somewhere, or if you know of more recent work in this area, I would appreciate a pointer.

I've put an SRPM of a slightly hacked version on:

	ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hch/misc/monte-0.4.0-2.src.rpm
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On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 02:41:46PM -0800, Andy Pfiffer wrote:
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If you've got a copy of the code stashed somewhere, or if you know of more recent work in this area, I would appreciate a pointer.

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I just asked Erik about this, and he gave me two pointers to places where monte is under development:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/monte
* Somewhat old, and CVS-only, but works with 2.4.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/bproc
* Look in the beoboot lanl.1.1 package.

Jeremy Brown