On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 08:26:04PM +0100, Stanislaw Skowronek wrote: > > Frankly, I don't see what kexec is good for. Who else besides > > kernel developers would need to reboot a machine continuously? > > Yeah. And, speaking from experience, it is often caused by the hardware > entering such an invalid state that requires a hard reset anyway. I guess only the big iron fraction among us will really be missing something like kexec - firmware reinitialization may take minutes on that calibre of system so being able to get around that would be a good thing. Ralf
