Boot Method?

From: Uday Mullangi (udaymullangi_at_lucent.com)
Date: 12/30/04

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    Hi,
    There are 2 disks(disk1, disk2), 2 processors(both p4) on my board. The
    communication between the two processors is via the PCI bridge.

    Processor 1 is running psos that has disk1.
    Processor 2 disk is empty(new one. Not formatted, not partitioned). I want
    to make the processor 2 boot with linux.
    I have an idea of keeping one image(bootable image) in disk1. When the BIOS
    of processor 2 completes, it finds that there
    is nothing in the disk2. So it asks for the processor1 to give the bootable
    image. Now the bios will execute the bootable image which will
    partition(only one in this case) the disk, create a file system on it,
    install the boot loader on the disk and then resets itself to comeup with
    the installed image.

    Is this a good approach?
    If so, how can i create a bootable image?
    what risks that can be foreseen?

    Thanks
    Uday

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