> you could stop at the first Linux system without ever booting the second Someone did that! Well, something like it, anyway.I have an Asus EeeBox sitting on m

> you could stop at the first Linux system without ever booting the second Someone did that! Well, something like it, anyway.I have an Asus EeeBox sitting on my desk, gathering dust, that has something called "SplashTop" - if I hit the right key during the POST screen, it boots into a minimalistic Linux desktop in about 2 seconds. There is networking and a browser. I haven't used it in ages, but I think the problem was that it could not access the file system, so one could not do very much, and I think settings did not persist across reboots. But the general idea seemed appealing at the time.