Enhancement: Soft-reboot using kexec instead of hard-rebooting
Bug #802065 reported by
WhyNotHugo
This bug affects 3 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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update-manager (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Currently, when updates that require a restart are done (ie: linux-kernel), the user is advised to do a full system restart for these changes to be effective.
Instead of doing a full restart as currently done, the user can be prompted to restart using kexec, to avoid the BIOS/firmware stage of the reboot process, hence achieving the same result in far less time (some motherboards have a aditional chipsets that initialize sata/raid drives, that can add up to 15 seconds to reboot process.
GRUB parameters can be detected and passed onto kexec, resulting in a far faster "reboot".
summary: |
- Soft-reboot using kexec instead of hard-rebooting + Enhancement: Soft-reboot using kexec instead of hard-rebooting |
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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.