--force loads a new kexec'able kernel and kexec's to this kernel
immediately without returning and giving user a chance to do a clean
shutdown. In effect it does "kexec -l" immediately followed by "kexec
-e". Normally one would kexec a kernel by first loading it with "kexec
-l". Then one would modi
Package: kexec-tools
Version: 1.101-2
Severity: minor
Hey,
according to the man page, kexec has a --force option which will "Force an
immediate kexec without calling shutdown". This implies that without --force,
calling kexec -e will call shutdown to change to runlevel 6 and do a proper
shutdown.
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