[TriLUG] installing kernel packages with rpm

John Berninger johnw at berningeronline.net
Fri Apr 22 17:37:09 EDT 2005


On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Brian Henning wrote:

> Ahhhhhhhh, so the -U is what causes the process to include the removal of
> the previous installation.  That would make sense.
> 
> So in the interest of wicked uptimes, is there a way to load a new kernel
> image on the fly without having to reboot?

        "Not yet."

        IIRC, it's being worked on upstream (meaning kernel.org), but
I've not heard anything about it since the days of 2.5.x...

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