New Kernel

[Tom Horsley]

On Fri, 6 Jun 2008 15:59:01 -0700 (PDT)
Ed Warner <edwarner99 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Is there a way to run a new kernel other than restart the machine? 

Depends on what you mean by restart. There is a thing called kexec
that can (if supported in the kernel you started from) replace the
whole running system with a newly booted kernel without going through
the boot process of the system bios, so it might be slightly faster
than a reboot, but the effect would be the same as far as starting
the machine completely from scratch.