Re: [tlug] Tiny Linux distro for boot loader?

[Edward Middleton <edward.middleton@example.com>]

On 24/1/21 3:50 pm, furkan@example.com wrote:
> On 2021-01-24 15:22, Edward Middleton wrote:
> > if I could pre-boot a small Linux distro I could use all the
> > power of that to load whatever I want over the data plane.
>
> Once you boot into linux, you can kexec into another kernel, etc.
> But if you are okay with the time overhead of rebooting twice for
> provisioning, booting anything would be possible. First stage would
> be your minimal linux "bootloader", that downloads image, writes to
> bootable storage, and reboots. Would that be close to your plan?

I was looking at this as a quick way to temporarily provision, maybe 
even just running from RAM so it would be better to not double boot.  I 
 wonder if any of the current boot loaders might do enough for what I need.

Edward