From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S7N9n-0008KO-Fp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 08:32:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3C6D5E0ABC; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 08:32:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA344E0A7C for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 08:30:52 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AokGAKU/KE9FpZT2/2dsb2JhbACBX48mjVV5iHCeGYYZBJROhkuECQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.73,1,1325480400"; d="scan'208";a="167768089" Received: from 69-165-148-246.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([69.165.148.246]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with SMTP; 13 Mar 2012 04:30:51 -0400 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 13 Mar 2012 04:30:22 -0400 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 04:30:22 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can I do a one-time boot to non-default kernel in Lilo? Message-ID: <20120313083022.GA1213@waltdnes.org> References: <20120312031601.GC25554@waltdnes.org> <156100146.547497.1331523333471.JavaMail.open-xchange@email.1and1.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <156100146.547497.1331523333471.JavaMail.open-xchange@email.1and1.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: ffd85c6e-4df6-4e10-934c-f57dd4a3ec76 X-Archives-Hash: 4367fdf478d39159d0ffeff3a2445841 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