I mean *before* reboot.

kexec, as you may already know, is a mechanism to load a new kernel image.
So you can "reboot" your computer without going through all the BIOS
initialization stuff. It has important uses, like getting a reliable crash
dump, and a cool thing about it is that it makes rebooting much faster.

First you load the kernel image, with a command like.
kexec -l /boot/vmlinuz --append="root=/dev/hda2 init=/sbin/initng"

Then, if you issue the command kexec -e, the system will immediately execute
the new kernel.
So I want a mechanism to issue kexec -e at the very last step of the reboot
process (by the time initng says "Goodbye").

On 3/23/07, Eric MSP Veith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

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Only when _re_booting?

On Friday 23 March 2007, "Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How can I tell initng to run kexec -e on reboot?
>
> Thank you.

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