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I have got kexec installed to do quick warm reboots without BIOS POST'ing and GRUB popping up. It will just reinit the kernel and do the bootprocess again.

Sometimes however, I like to do a full reboot, for example to change some BIOS settings or to start a different OS. I do this now by shutting down first.

Is there a command I can do in (Debian) Linux to ignore kexec and just do an oldskool full (warm) reboot including POST?

Needless to say, $ reboot is configured to use kexec. This all happens automatically when installing kexec.

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Debian provides the script /sbin/coldreboot.

From the man page: "coldreboot is a script that forces a cold reboot regardless of whether kexec is enabled or not in /etc/default/kexec."

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  • This is a nice one. Just as I found out I cannot kexec-less reboot anymore. They should make this default for the desktop GUI reboot option - IMO.
    – Redsandro
    Aug 30, 2013 at 21:33
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Here is instruction for Gentoo, but the same idea. Hope it will be useful:

Just stop the kexec daemon before rebooting. sudo /etc/init.d/kexec stop

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  • Thank you. Quite simple, I hadn't found this instruction before. I've edited your answer to include the instruction
    – Redsandro
    Jun 23, 2013 at 17:46
  • I just found out this doesn't seem to work (anymore) on recent Debian?
    – Redsandro
    Aug 30, 2013 at 21:31

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