On Thursday 12 October 2006 08:42, PaulNM wrote: > Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > > It would of course solve the issue. *Nothing* short of a kernel > > upgrade requires a reboot though. And I mean that literally. So > > usually not. > > Just being a bit pedantic here, but what about init? Even switching > to runlevel 1 would leave it running. Is it possible to tell the > kernel to re-run init, and how?
I don't believe so - every attempt i've ever made to kill or restart init causes a kernel panic. It's not init doing this - the same effect is achieved by booting with init=/bin/bash and then exiting that bash alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
