While silicon vendors are taking the lead in bringing the multicore revolution to embedded markets, software developers of embedded operating systems, middleware, and applications are struggling to keep pace. A major hurdle is transiting to the multicore environment, which requires a paradigm shift in design strategies for legacy systems. This white paper addresses one such use-case, namely the initialization from bare metal of a homo-geneous multicore system. The focus here is to outline "need-to-update" areas in the RTOS boot sequence which include stack setup, kernel data initialization, and synchronization of cores during startup.