On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 20:28 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
Terry Eck wrote:
Does SuSE somehow force the computer to bypass the boot sequence set in the BIOS when it is told to "restart"? If so, anyone know how this is done?
No, SUSE (nor anyone else) cannot override the boot-sequence set in the BIOS.
Assuming you get to the BIOS, this is true. But with kexec, there is work being done on accomplishing a true "warm boot", where you reboot without ever touching the BIOS. As I understand it, the kernel simply shuts down everything, loads the new kernel (if applicable), and launches it But since Terry mentioned that he was in the BIOS settings editor he was already outside the linux kernel, so this is obviously not relevant, so sorry for mentioning it :)