On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 17:53:24 +1000, Aboo Valappil <aboo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Basically I have a requirement of re-booting ( Without really rebooting > ) the OS from the hard disk What you want is the kexec() functionality of recent kernels to replace the current kernel with another for whatever purpose. Please let me know if this solves your problem, or if not what reason you have for trying to do this so we can give you alternative solutions. Jon. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/