Re: Install new kernel without reboots.

[Randy.Dunlap]

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 17:30:52 +0200 (CEST) Maciej Soltysiak <solt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

| Hi,
| 
| I have heard it is possible to change the kernel without reboots.
| And I am not talking about UML.
| 
| Is it true? I could not find any documents on the web.

Eric Biederman has been working on 'kexec', which is a fast
reboot (Linux boots Linux).  See
  http://www.xmission.com/~ebiederm/files/kexec/
and
  http://developer.osdl.org/%7Eandyp/kexec/
for some 2.5.[67]x versions.  I'm trying to update it to
2.6.0-test3 and make it reboot successfully on my dual P4
machine.  Currently it hangs during the reboot.

--
~Randy
"Everything is relative."
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