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There are no Alpine-specific considerations for Kexec. Please review the man page and existing references below for more details. This page is deliberately kept short in order to avoid duplicating existing documentation. | There are no Alpine-specific considerations for Kexec. Please review the man page and existing references below for more details. This page is deliberately kept short in order to avoid duplicating existing documentation. | ||
Revision as of 12:56, 5 September 2023
Kexec is a system call that enables loading and booting into another kernel. This is useful for faster reboots that skip the BIOS or UEFI initialisation process.
Installing kexec-tools
The userspace tools required to use it can be installed via
apk add kexec-tools kexec-tools-doc
The tools are not available on all flavors of Alpine, additionally not all kernels are compiled with the kexec syscall enabled. You will most likely want to check your /boot/config-* file for CONFIG_KEXEC=y
Usage
On a typical Alpine setup, it can be used manually via:
# kexec -l /boot/vmlinuz-edge --initrd \ /boot/initramfs-edge --reuse-cmdline \ && openrc shutdown # kexec -e
There are no Alpine-specific considerations for Kexec. Please review the man page and existing references below for more details. This page is deliberately kept short in order to avoid duplicating existing documentation.