While the manpage does mention about kexec boot with a clean shutdown, it is not explicit about it. Make it explicit. Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kexec/kexec.8 | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kexec/kexec.8 b/kexec/kexec.8 index 3a344c5..87e4ab5 100644 --- a/kexec/kexec.8 +++ b/kexec/kexec.8 @@ -95,8 +95,16 @@ then you would use the following command to load the kernel: .RB "\-\-append=" "root=/dev/hda1" "\ \-\-initrd=" /boot/initrd .RE .PP -After this kernel is loaded, it can be booted to at any time using the -command: +After this kernel is loaded, assuming your Linux distribution supports +kexec-based rebooting, it can be booted to, with a clean shutdown, using +the command: + +.RS +.BR reboot +.RE +.PP +Alternatively, it can also be booted to, without calling shutdown(8), with +the command: .RS .BR kexec \ \-e -- 2.41.0 _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec
