Talk:Kexec

It was me who linked to the kernel upgrade guide at gentoo.org. Why wasn't this already linked? I suppose the text had been copy pasted from the archives or something. Bicyclerepairman 11:40, 14 March 2010 (GMT)

On the revert in nov 2011
Hi. My previous edit was reverted, but I think my edit was legitimate.

The old version of the first section "what's kexec" started as "kexec is a system call" ("man 8 kexec" has these lines, too), but the article's contents are on how to use /etc/init.d/kexec, not on the system call underlying kexec (8). (BTW there's no kexec (2) man page. =P) And the next sentence "The name comes from the similarity to the exec system call." is worthless; the etymology is irrelevant.

The section "Conifugring kexec" of my version may look too short, but if you actually have a look at /etc/conf.d/kexec, you'll see all is written there, so it's ok. (Maybe that file was terse when the former version was written.) The sentences in the previous "Try it out" section were badly organized.

And so on. I've cut off unnecessary words, but I'm not mean in explanation. It improved readability.

Thank you AllenJB very much for maintaining the Gentoo Wiki. Regards -- Teika 12:08, 26 November 2011 (GMT)