Re: kexec instead of rebooting at the end of the install?

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On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 10:00:57AM -0700, David N. Lombard wrote:
> I just rebuilt the kernel w/ kexec, added kexec-tools to ISO-1 so a 
> minimal install--which now included kexec-tools--didn't require two 
> disks, and rebuilt the ISO set.
> I then used a little perl scripty-foo to glom the kernel, initrd, and 
> command line from grub.conf, then built and executed the kexec setup 
> command in the post section of the kickstart file.  After that in post, 
> I remounted all file systems RO and executed the kexec boot.

Okay, so the proof of concept is done. :)

Since anaconda just wrote that grub conf, it shouldn't be necessary to
reparse it if everything is in anaconda itself. (Well, some way to pass this
info back to the loader, which basically serves as init... but that's not
too hard.)

Anyway, can I see your script?

-- 
Matthew Miller           mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx          <http://mattdm.org/>
Boston University Linux      ------>              <http://linux.bu.edu/>


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