[systemd-devel] Right way to do kexec

Marti Raudsepp marti at juffo.org
Wed Mar 21 17:38:22 PDT 2012


On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 02:16, Mirco Tischler <mt-ml at gmx.de> wrote:
> Unless you want to use kexec on panic. In that case the kexec kernel
> should be loaded at boot, doesn't it? But I don't know if this is
> actually in use or more a debugging tool for kernel devs.

Sure, the crashdump kernel is loaded with 'kexec --load-panic' and is
usually a different image/initrd anyway. So systemd's usage of kexec
for reboot doesn't affect that at all.

Regards,
Marti


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