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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:25:03 +0200
From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED gentoo-sources menuconfig
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On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:16:41 +0200
Coert Waagmeester <lgroups@waagmeester.co.za> wrote:
> > Not doing it this way means a very high likelyhood of the machine
> > not booting with every single upgrade, plus the huge amount of work
> > it takes to go through everything in menuconfig.
>
> indeed, especially when the server is stuck in a far away rack.
Ooooooooooh, those are the scary ones.
Two excellent things can help with that:
A proper RAC setup, or
Copy the debian boot scheme, where is a kernel won't boot, it panics
and times out after 30 seconds. Grub then automagically boots the
previous working kernel.
Just don't do what I did earlier: sit in Joburg and configure the
firewall on a Xen host in deepest darkest Africa where there's no
tarred roads to get to it. Check the iptables config three times,
plus get your colleagues to look it over as well. We all signed off on
it.
Guess what? Yup, you got it. We all missed something and now we are
locked out. Remember, it's in deepest darkest Africa.
<sigh>
--
Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com