That is the right way to kexec a new kernel after clean shutdown. It is
possible to make kexec-tools divert /etc/init.d/reboot to a new script
that does "kexec -e" and "reboot -d -f -i" if kexec fails. This is
something I am considering doing in one of the future releases.
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Khalid
On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 01:12 +0100, Matthijs Kooijman wrote:
> Package: kexec-tools
> Version: 1.101-2
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Hey,
>
> for kexec to be actually useful, there needs to be some way to not just do a
> kexec, but also do a proper shutdown first.
>
> I have solved this right now by prepending the "reboot" command in
> /etc/init.d/reboot command with "kexec -e" (which will fail and allow the
> normal reboot command to run when no kernel has been loaded before by kexec).
> Something similar should be done by kexec-tools, though this will probably
> need some modifications in the sysvinit package too.
>
> Gr.
>
> Matthijs
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
> APT prefers unstable
> APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.14.4
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
>
> Versions of packages kexec-tools depends on:
> ii libc6 2.3.5-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> an
>
> kexec-tools recommends no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
>
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