kexec(8)

✨ NAME ✨

okay bestie, this page is part of the kexec(8) manual 🫶 and the star of the show is coldreboot, which is a script that forces a cold reboot and ignores the kexec-tools default 💅 It's giving "I know what I want and I'm getting it" energy 🔥

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

/sbin/coldreboot [reboot options]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so coldreboot is a script that makes sure you get a cold reboot 🧊 no matter whether kexec is turned on or off in /etc/default/kexec 👀 it's literally the ultimate override, iconic ✨

it takes the very same arguments as /sbin/reboot and then hands them right over to /sbin/reboot later on 🫶 so you already know how to use it if you've ever rebooted anything, periodt 💖

✨ NOTES ✨

ngl this part is so important 🙈 coldreboot stops a kexec kernel from being loaded automatically, which is what forces that cold reboot 🧊

⚠️ bestie, if you load a kexec kernel by hand yourself, coldreboot will still end up doing a kexec reboot 💀 it doesn't cancel the one you manually set up, so keep that in mind 🫠

Linux, April 2006, kexec(8) 🦋 that's the source, date, and manual name for this page, all wrapped up with a bow 🎀 love you, mwah 💜