Hi Tony.

It is so tough because launching programs from kernel land is a really messy thing to do. That is probably why Mark didn't do that in the first place. Now if the empeg software would look for a "userinit=" string or simply for a /drive[01]/userinit script and launch that, that would be a cleaner approach. But the /dev/hda2 image by Kim Covil is really advancing well. But I won't do any estimates when it will be ready for public release. That is his part. Well, actually, the current version is available for public download AFAIK, it just isn't really ready yet.

cu,
sven