[vox-tech] replace running kernel with new one

Tony Cratz cratz at hematite.com
Sat Sep 14 04:21:38 PDT 2013


Hello,

	Before my friend Hugh Daniels passed away he mention there was a
	way to fork/exec/chain a new kernel to replace the current
	running kernel. Due to his passing, I never did learn how.

	The plan was to have a small OS on either a USB flash drive, or
	an SSD. Once it was up and running, it would then replace the
	current kernel with the one on the hard drive. This way you
	could ssh into the system and work on it (much like having the
	system in a VM but not doing so).

	This method would allow you to do low level work on the system
	(run a FSCK, or fix a RAID and so on).

	Does anyone understand how to do this? Hugh said it would be
	much like a 'chain' command from Fortran.

								Tony


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