kexec and Grub

[John Moser]

On 02/08/2013 02:27 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
> On 8 February 2013 10:04, Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff
> <sergey at elementaryos.org> wrote:
>>> Nice... Now can you tell grub to boot entry 1, 3, 7, etc?  Read an alternate grub.conf?
>>>
>>> Rapid reboot :)
>> Yes, you can, with "grub-reboot" command. You should probably team up
>> with the script kitties behind Unity Reboot
>> (http://www.webupd8.org/2013/01/unity-reboot-launcher-to-quickly-reboot.html)
>> and implement a faster reboot sequence. I believe it would be
>> beneficial for both parties.
>>
> Wait a second. There is a whole plan and design to integrated "Reboot
> into" in the g-s-d panel and the reboot popup.

Yes, it might be mine or someone else's.  There's an ANCIENT spec for 
"RapidReboot"

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RapidReboot

It looks like revision 1 was indeed me....

... in 2006.

And I was late to the party.  Again, kexec was made for "rebooting is 
slow, there's ten million server bioses".


> We want this in ubuntu as well =)
>
> Mpt, can you point where the designs are? Since technically the
> utility exists and prof of concept it should be quick to integrate.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dmitrijs.
>