[systemd-devel] Right way to do kexec

[Mirco Tischler]

Am 22. März 2012 01:38 schrieb Marti Raudsepp <marti at juffo.org>:
> 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

I wasn't aware of that. Thanks for the clarification.

Mirco