From: "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can I do a one-time boot to non-default kernel in Lilo?
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 04:30:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120313083022.GA1213@waltdnes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <156100146.547497.1331523333471.JavaMail.open-xchange@email.1and1.com>
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 11:35:33PM -0400, Bruce Hill, Jr. wrote
> Unless I misunderstand you, after you issue "lilo" to write to the MBR,
> then issue:
> lilo -R experimental
>
> where experimental is the name of the kernel image you want to boot. The R
> creates a one time command which it will use the next time you boot, then
> it will be erased.
>
> And give the kernel an append statement:
> append="panic=10"
>
> so that if the kernel does not boot, you get automatically rebooted back
> into the good kernel.
Thanks. That's exactly what I was looking for. I vaguely remembered
reading about something this, but my Google-fu didn't quite work.
--
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
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2012-03-12 3:16 [gentoo-user] Can I do a one-time boot to non-default kernel in Lilo? Walter Dnes
2012-03-12 3:35 ` Bruce Hill, Jr.
2012-03-13 8:30 ` Walter Dnes [this message]
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