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Author: Didier Kryn
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Installing without rebooting
Le 20/12/2018 à 16:22, Adam Borowski a écrit :
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 03:38:01PM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote:
>
>>     What's the purpose of kexec ? I see one main: using a Linux session as
>> the bootloader, a bootloader more heavily customizable than Grub.
>> Additionally it saves a few seconds. Are there any other ?
> Post-mortem on a crashed system: the second kernel can access the whole
> memory, etc.
>
> It can also bring you some "fun" when it turns out the machine can't boot
> from a cold start.



    In the last case you assume you have realized that the machine
can't coldstart before experimenting it (~:

            Didier