Re: Update kernel without boot!?!? From oracle/linux site

[Alexandru Juncu <alex.juncu@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On May 10, 2012 10:28 PM, "Daniel Hilst" <danielhilst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  From oracle/linux[1] site, they're bragging about having the unique OS
> that can have kernel updated on the fly..
>
> I have two questions:
>
> 1) Is that possible, and if is, can this be safe??? On PDF they say
> about a module that does the trick..
>
> 2) Is there any open software project trying this? would be good to have
> that feature!
>
>
> Cheers!
> Hilst
>
> [1] http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/linux/index.html

Hello!

There is kexec [0] that does that.

[0] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kexec

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