systemctl kexec

Category: Administration

systemctl kexec

Reboot directly into the loaded kernel

Reboots using the kernel already loaded into memory via kexec, skipping the firmware and bootloader entirely. This makes reboots much faster but requires the kexec-tools package and a pre-loaded kernel image. Fall back to systemctl reboot if anything seems off.
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