Feature proposal: Rebootless Installer
Douglas McClendon
dmc.fedora at filteredperception.org
Tue Jul 14 14:21:14 UTC 2009
Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2009/07/14 05:38 (GMT-0600) Douglas McClendon composed:
>
>> Felix Miata wrote:
>
>>> Doesn't kexec, which does a BIOS bypassing reboot, accomplish what you want?
>>> OpenSUSE's installer has had kexec_reboot=1 by default for a version or two
>>> (I think default started with 11.1): http://en.opensuse.org/Kexec
>>> http://en.opensuse.org/Linuxrc
>
>> ... I could be wrong about that, or my
>> interpretation of what kexec does ...
>
> The first URL explains it.
>
>> Your first link seems currently broken (database error), and the second
>
> It worked and works for me.
Yeah, it's working now. My impression from LWN was correct.
>
>> doesn't really lead me to believe it is anything equivalent.
>
> The second URL is mainly a list of installer options, and affirms my
> statement that kexec is now a default option.
>
>> used *suse that much recently so I can't be sure- Is it perhaps
>> something where they have a very minimal partial installation, then
>> start writing the minimal stuff to disk, kexec-reboot, and then set you
>> up in system that is finishing installing while you use it? If so, one
>
> IIRC most rpms, initrd & Grub are installed by the initial installer, then
> kexec prior to most configuration steps by the installer now running on the
> installed kernel instead of the installation kernel.
So it is in fact like what I supposed, except instead of a minimal
install before kexec, it's basically the full install followed by a
kexec reboot. Which again, is an entirely different user experience.
peace...
-dmc
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