"Chris G. Demetriou" <cgd@pa.dec.com> writes:

> But, in a nutshell, there's nothing that the running kernel does to
> tell the firmware what to boot from, and little that it _can_ do;
> the firmware decides for itself, based on the existing firmware
> environment variables and the previously-booted device/kernel.

Right. And in some sense I think this is the correct behaviour (that
rebooting gives me the same operating system, not that it isn't
possible to control from "user space"). I only wish it would keep the
boot flags also.

/Johan