Re: Reloading the kernel with kexec before other services start

2014-11-19 Thread Mario Castelán Castro
This is a virtual machine whose bootloader is bypassed. GRUB is ignored completely, so I can't modify it to pass kernel options. That's why I need to use kexec. At any rate, thanks you very much for the quick reply!. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

Re: Reloading the kernel with kexec before other services start

2014-11-19 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 20/11/14 10:43, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: > This is a virtual machine whose bootloader is bypassed. GRUB is ignored > completely, so I can't modify it to pass kernel options. That's why I > need to use kexec. Then I'd suggest you:- ;try the reboot method - warm reboot and kexec should allow

Re: Reloading the kernel with kexec before other services start

2014-11-19 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 20/11/14 10:36, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: > Thanks for the answer. > > If I understand correctly, your suggestions take effect when restarting > the machine. I'm looking for something that takes effect when starting up. Simpler - add an extra GRUB entry. My apologies for the confusion (I've

Re: Reloading the kernel with kexec before other services start

2014-11-19 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 20/11/14 10:00, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: > Hello. > > I need to reload the same kernel that the machine boots with with kexec, > in order to specify different kernel parameters. Changing the boot > loader is unfortunately not an option. > > I'm using Debian Wheezy with sysvinit. I can make