Fedora 10 - Boot Analysis

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> said:
> On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 16:41 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote:
> > so a good reason to power off is simply to save power
> 
> Or to reboot for one of our frequent updates that require it.  kernel,
> dbus, etc...

Why does anything other than a kernel update require a reboot?

Is it possible to use kexec to boot a new kernel from the old one?  That
would cut down on the reboot time (on some of my systems, especially
servers with SCSI and/or RAID, the POST takes much longer than the
kernel/daemon boot).

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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.