On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 09:50:26AM -0800, Vince Hillier wrote: > I recall a couple of years ago hearing about loading new kernel > without actually rebooting. But it was new then, and you actually did > have to reboot, it just skipped the POST and what not. > > Has anything been done in this area since then? I would like to keep > my uptimes, but kernel upgrades are becoming very imminent.
Donald Becker wrote 'two-kernel monte' which does this sort of thing, but since the new kernel has new interfaces and overwrites the previous ones' data space, you'll lose all counters (including uptime). -rob
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