>> 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). Oh yes please! Some of my large servers seems to take weeks to boot :-) Peter -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
