diff --git a/elements/deploy-kexec/README.md b/elements/deploy-kexec/README.md
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+Boots into the new image once baremetal-deploy-helper signals
+it is finished by downloading the kernel and ramdisk via tftp,
+and using the kexec utilities.
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diff --git a/elements/deploy-kexec/binary-deps.d/deploy-kexec b/elements/deploy-kexec/binary-deps.d/deploy-kexec
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+kexec
diff --git a/elements/deploy-kexec/element-deps b/elements/deploy-kexec/element-deps
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+deploy
diff --git a/elements/deploy-kexec/init.d/zdeploy-kexec b/elements/deploy-kexec/init.d/zdeploy-kexec
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+TFTP_MAC_ADDRESS="01-"`echo $BOOT_MAC_ADDRESS | sed 's/:/-/g' | tr "A-Z" "a-z"`
+tftp -r /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/${TFTP_MAC_ADDRESS} -g ${BOOT_SERVER}
+APPEND=$(tail -n1 ${TFTP_MAC_ADDRESS} | cut -f3- -d" ")
+
+KERNEL=$(get_kernel_parameter BOOT_IMAGE | sed 's/deploy_//g')
+RAMDISK=$(echo $KERNEL | sed 's/kernel/ramdisk/')
+
+tftp -r ${KERNEL} -g ${BOOT_SERVER}
+tftp -r ${RAMDISK} -g ${BOOT_SERVER}
+kexec -l kernel --append="${APPEND}" --initrd=ramdisk && kexec -e
diff --git a/elements/deploy-kexec/install.d/53-install-kexec b/elements/deploy-kexec/install.d/53-install-kexec
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+#!/bin/sh
+install-packages kexec-tools