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From: "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
To: Gentoo Users List <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Can I do a one-time boot to non-default kernel in Lilo?
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 23:16:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120312031601.GC25554@waltdnes.org> (raw)

  Not exactly your typical "remote machine", but the principle is the
same.  I have a dedicated HTPC machine next to my 50" plasma, connected
by 50 feet of ethernet cable to my computer den.  I use the TV as a
monitor when running NHL GameCenter Live.

  I have Lilo set up to "dual boot" between a "production" and an
"experimental" kernel.  The first (i.e. default) boot option is the
"production" kernel.  When I set up a new kernel, I try to always run it
as experimental.  Even if the kernel panics, I don't<G>.  I boot back
into the production kernel, and try again.  Once the experimental kernel
has run for a couple of weeks without problems, I copy it over the
production kernel.

  One problem... if I build a new kernel, is there a way to get the
"remote machine" to boot to the non-default experimental kernel just
once?  Any future boots to default to production (unless its a restart
from hibernate).

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>



             reply	other threads:[~2012-03-12  3:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-12  3:16 Walter Dnes [this message]
2012-03-12  3:35 ` [gentoo-user] Can I do a one-time boot to non-default kernel in Lilo? Bruce Hill, Jr.
2012-03-13  8:30   ` Walter Dnes

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