x86_64 Live-CD recommendations? /sbin/loader?

[Michael ODonnell]

>   WTF is /sbin/loader ?
>
>It executes early during startup when booting from an ISO.  The
>only stuff I can find online about this apparently pivotal item
>is lots of other people also asking questions, but no answers.

Ah.  I used "strings" on the /sbin/loader file from the ISO
and divined that it's tangled up with anaconda, which led me
to refine my searches and come up with this:

   http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Stage1DevelopmentGuide

So the kernel execs /sbin/init, which (being customized on the
DVD in question) is configured (hard-coded?) to automatically
launch /sbin/loader as the first stage of anaconda.  Bleah...