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From: vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
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Subject: Re: Dimdows Decay Syndrome Continues
Date: 9 Feb 2025 13:58:25 GMT
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On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 23:44:41 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<ldo@nz.invalid> wrote in <vo8q98$8tqo$3@dont-email.me>:

> On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 09:05:27 -0500, CrudeSausage wrote:
> 
>> On 2025-02-08 1:36 a.m., Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>>> Doesn’t RHEL support kexec, which allows the old Linux kernel to pass
>>> control to the new one without actually disrupting the userland?
>> 
>> I don't know, it might.
> 
> The last openSUSE install I did, some years ago, I remember it switched
> almost seamlessly from running off the installation media to running off
> the just-created (minimal) installation, and continued adding packages
> from there. There was no perceptible reboot stage at all.
> 
> Just to point out this is a common Linux kernel feature, not something
> specific to a particular distro.

Not sure why that would need kexec -- more likely, it used
chroot(8) or pivot_root(8).

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