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		sparcpile on July 13, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Windows 3.1 Flash Edition With the EFI stub in the Linux kernel and the ability to embed an initrd in the kernel, you can boot a small distribution with just the kernel file. The only issue is that it takes a long time to load a very large kernel into memory like that. I tried that with a buildroot based hypervisor I created for my home lab.

woleium on July 14, 2022 [–]

I remember doing something similar, only using pxe to chain boot Linux from an HTTP server. iirc we used https://ipxe.org/

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