On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 13:01 +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > Package: kexec-tools > Version: 20080324-2.1 > Severity: normal > > > The /etc/default/kexec setting is always being applied. There's no way > of saying "reboot, just this time, via reboot instead of kexec". > > One can of course EDIT /etc/default/kexec, reboot, and edit back. > Anyway, it would be cool to have the possibility of passing an > argument to reboot that causes a "real" reboot to happen. > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: squeeze/sid > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > > Versions of packages kexec-tools depends on: > ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.26 Debian configuration management > sy > ii libc6 2.9-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries > > kexec-tools recommends no packages. > > kexec-tools suggests no packages. > > -- debconf information: > * kexec-tools/load_kexec: true > > >
I have been thinking about this. I don't really want to change the reboot binary. I am thinking of adding a /sbin/cold-reboot script to kexec-tools package. This script will create a file, say /var/tmp/no-kexec-reboot, upon execution and then call /sbin/reboot. When kexec-load init script is run, it will check for the existence of file /var/tmp/no-kexec-reboot. If it finds the file, it will not load a kexec kernel and remove the /var/tmp/no-kexec-reboot file. Later when S85kexec init script runs, it will not find a kexec kernel loaded and exit. This will result in a cold reboot. Does this sound workable? =================== Khalid Aziz kha...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
