From: Alan McKinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb question
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:30:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200610120930.30718.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <452DE3E8.4000708@paulscrap.com>
On Thursday 12 October 2006 08:42, PaulNM wrote:
> Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> > It would of course solve the issue. *Nothing* short of a kernel
> > upgrade requires a reboot though. And I mean that literally. So
> > usually not.
>
> Just being a bit pedantic here, but what about init? Even switching
> to runlevel 1 would leave it running. Is it possible to tell the
> kernel to re-run init, and how?
I don't believe so - every attempt i've ever made to kill or restart
init causes a kernel panic.
It's not init doing this - the same effect is achieved by booting with
init=/bin/bash and then exiting that bash
alan
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-11 4:21 [gentoo-user] Dumb question Anthony E. Caudel
2006-10-11 4:42 ` Troy Curtis Jr
2006-10-11 6:20 ` Nick Rout
2006-10-11 18:05 ` Thomas T. Veldhouse
2006-10-11 18:29 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-10-11 6:30 ` Anthony E. Caudel
2006-10-11 8:28 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-10-11 7:44 ` Pawel Kraszewski
2006-10-11 16:23 ` Daniel Barkalow
2006-10-11 17:43 ` Michael Sullivan
2006-10-12 7:28 ` Alan McKinnon
2006-10-12 6:17 ` Anthony E. Caudel
2006-10-12 6:22 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2006-10-12 6:42 ` PaulNM
2006-10-12 7:30 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2006-10-12 11:55 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
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