Re: Bug#469256: kexec-tools: Please use a boolean question with debconf

[Justin B Rye <jbr@edlug.org.uk>]

Khalid Aziz wrote:
> "Please choose whether to enable kexec-tools to load a new kernel
> automatically on reboots and kexec into the new kernel instead of
> rebooting into firmware."
> 
> Any thoughts?

Mainly, again, "what's new about them?" - kexec _can_ be used to
load a specified kernel, but that's not the behaviour you get from
automatic reloads handled by kexec-tools.  What it does by default
is load /vmlinuz, and that's usually an _old_ kernel.

Also, I'm not keen on "firmware" (too technical) or "reboots" (when
you mean restarts that avoid the bootstrapping process).  And this
is too much work for one sentence.

How about:

  Should kexec-tools handle reboots? If you accept this option,
  invocations of "shutdown -r" will trigger a restart into a kernel
  loaded by kexec instead of going through the full system bootloader
  process.

-- 
JBR	with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
	sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package