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kexec support in initscripts

Par jd le vendredi, septembre 15 2006, 13:19 - Debian - Lien permanent

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Yesterday I took a look to kexec, a Linux kernel feature integrated since 2.6.13. It allows to reboot to a new kernel without having the initial BIOS setup launched.

So this morning, I wrote a little patch to initscripts in order to use this new cool feature. With this patch you just have to edit /etc/default/reboot and change REBOOT=reboot to REBOOT=kexec, and it should work !

The patch has been sent to the BTS, see #387599.

Commentaires

1. Le vendredi, septembre 15 2006, 15:03 par Nikolaus: This sounds like a great idea. I must admit that I haven't tested kexec yet since I'm running Stable exclusively. But if it does what it says, this would be really super-cool to have in Etch!
2. Le vendredi, septembre 15 2006, 18:02 par Chris: I wrote a little python script called kexec-chooser to make rebooting with kexec a bit easier (on Debian anyway). Check it out here: http://atlee.ca/blog/software/kexec-chooser/