...a few examples of complete "bare bones" kernels in the wild that boot from USB drives or "floppy" disks - here's an x86_32 version written in assembler using the old TSS descriptors that can actually run multi-threaded C code (github.com/duanev/oz-x86-32-asm-003) but there is no standard library sup...

...d and locally compiled versions, local and network versions, and local and USB-drive portable versions, etc. and there is a small possibility that you might get two incompatible results from different methods of locating. And "_" may simply point to the wrong program. A program using execve can...