Can the kexec feature be used at installation time, directly from anaconda?
Issue
The time to boot our big servers with 6TB of memory is about 40minn (for various BIOS tests), so reboot with kexec is a way to avoid this timeout. We would like to directly kexec into the kernel after installation.
Currently the install kernel is not configured with CONFIG_KEXEC=y, so kexec is not possible.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 and 7
- anaconda
- kexec
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