On Tuesday 18 August 2009 04:23:28 Patrick Shanahan wrote:
What I wonder is how to make the *new* kernel active w/o rebooting?
I'm not sure you can without using something funky like ksplice, and i'm not even sure that's available for other kernels other than Ubuntu at the moment. The fastest reboot option would be kexec though. from man: EXAMPLE For example, if the kernel image you want to reboot to is /boot/vmlinux, the contents of /proc/cmdline is root=/dev/hda1, and the path to the initrd is /boot/initrd, then you would use the following command to load the kernel: kexec -l /boot/vmlinux --append=root=/dev/hda1 --initrd=/boot/initrd After this kernel is loaded, it can be booted to at any time using the command: kexec -e -- “Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.” ☘ Oscar Wilde -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org