Is it possible to reboot my Desktop or Server bypassing BIOS and loading Red Hat directly?

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Issue

  • Is it possible to reboot my Desktop or Server bypassing BIOS and loading Red Hat directly?
  • My Server take to long to reboot during the BIOS load. How can we reboot only the system?
  • Is it possible to load my system in same manner as kdump does but loading the current Kernel?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • kexec-tools package

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