Re: how to upgrade your kernel without a reboot
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 10:52:50PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
> this uses the first stanza in the /boot/grub/menu.lst as the default
> parameters. I installed a new kernel, then uses this shell script. Then
> the xserver restarted and I was back in my display manager and after I
> did a 'uname -a', I had a new kernel in about one minute. Which would
> have happended in a regular reboot but it misses going through the bios
> and doing an actual /sbin/reboot. You need the kexec-tools package. Then
> I was about to remove my previous linux-image packages.
I hope it doesn't reset your uptime. Just think, one could have an
uptime measuring years while also having kernel updates!
Doug.
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