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On Friday 18 May 2007 23:45:42 Peter Davoust wrote: |
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> Actually, I wanted to ask a some what unrelated question as well: I've |
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> heard it's possible to update kernel without rebooting, and while I'm |
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> not sure of the advisability, I'm getting things to work here and I'd |
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> like to not have to reboot my computer so many times. Besides, it just |
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> sounds cool. Could someone tell me how to do it? |
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I've done it before via kexec, but I don't remember exactly how. Google for: |
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linux kexec how-to |
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and you should get some useful links. |
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I really should try and convince my computer to kexec again. It takes forever |
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to initialize my hw RAID card and the BIOS felt slow even before that card |
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was added. |
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There's also the older and more flakey method of modifying a running kernel by |
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writing to /proc/kcore, but I've not actually seen code to load a new kernel |
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that way, only code to hide a (GPL'd) rootkit in a running kerenl. |
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