Re: "Boot this kernel once" functionality? (amd64)

[Anthony Mallet <anthony.mallet%laas.fr@localhost>]

On Wednesday 16 Sep 2020, at 12:09, Martin Husemann wrote:
> This works fine on e.g. sparc*; I can do: shutdown -b netbsd.t -r
> now
>
> No state is modified on any disks, very convenient.

Right, not changing any state seems safer!

> I don't know if there is enough of a persistent environment for UEFI
> boots (I would guess there is), and probably no easy way for BIOS
> boot.

The machine in question is not UEFI, so I would be more interested in
a pure BIOS solution.