Linux Warm Boot?

Sat Dec 18 16:04:16 UTC 2004

On 2004-12-18 (Saturday) 12:10, Håkan Persson wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I am interested in making it possible to "warm boot" a Linux kernel.
> I would like start off booting on a USB-stick (which I have succeeded in 
> doing), perform some checks and then completely replacing the running 
> system with another system located on a hard disk, just like it would 
> have booted in the first place. I just can't reboot the system since it 
> is set to boot on the USB-stick first.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
    Look at:
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-kexec.html
    I wonder did it make it upstream?

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