On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 10:27:27PM -0700, Littlefield, Tyler wrote: > > Why does Arch Linux need to be rebooted over a kernel exchange? > Any system needs to be rebooted in order to switch from an older > kernel to the running kernel. Hmmmn. I'd always heard, from WAY back, that Linux never needed to be rebooted. You could just init the services again and continue running. Michael