Brian Smucker <bsmucker at anabaptists.org> writes: > Hello, > > Is there someone who can answer these questions out there? > > Perhaps you could give a name of someone who could help. kexec is designed to boot arbitrary kernels. How well you can do that depends on how close the system can be returned to a state similar to reset, and how robust the kernel you are booting is. If you can get /sbin/kexec to reproduce your normal boot protocol it is likely you can get an newer kernel to boot an older one. Eric