Compared to the "consoles" found on traditional Unix workstations and mini-computers, the Linux boot process is feature-poor, and the addition of new functionality to boot loaders often results in massive code duplication. With the availability of kexec, this situation can be improved.

kboot is a proof-of-concept implementation of a Linux boot loader based on kexec. kboot uses a boot loader like LILO or GRUB to load a regular Linux kernel as its first stage. Then, the full capabilities of the kernel can be used to locate and to access the kernel to be booted, perform limited diagnostics and repair, etc.

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