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 1S17MG-0008VJ-Lx for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 25 Feb 2012 02:27:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D9C8EE0D2C; Sat, 25 Feb 2012 02:27:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f181.google.com (mail-gx0-f181.google.com [209.85.161.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 890BFE0BFA for ; Sat, 25 Feb 2012 02:26:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ggni4 with SMTP id i4so580013ggn.40 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:26:29 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of rdalek1967@gmail.com designates 10.236.197.66 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.236.197.66; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of rdalek1967@gmail.com designates 10.236.197.66 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=rdalek1967@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=rdalek1967@gmail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.236.197.66]) by 10.236.197.66 with SMTP id s42mr9215331yhn.69.1330136789087 (num_hops = 1); Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:26:29 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=D/TNnsM0htICPHrGPMFDRNTh722PDIh7yV7SioLMIMk=; b=RlV4oeAp5gmPnUxFzlKPht2EIusBZHZlJSqgg8yXdFKbSooKcZzO9xYqHQ/ywn70CP jGRm5zl0aQ0WUEg6aKCk0Kddr/Ckw4sD8XFMMtQ8ktn3rslqL3BGQvM5on2srAZAFb0A ++HAEGzz5Qnx+XpTbEmK3NoDmzyGWzRLVv5fY= Received: by 10.236.197.66 with SMTP id s42mr6973569yhn.69.1330136789030; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:26:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-116-97.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.116.97]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n24sm17234818yhj.13.2012.02.24.18.26.27 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:26:28 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F4846D1.7090305@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:26:25 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120218 Firefox/10.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.7.1 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Safe way to test a new kernel? References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f61e485c-86ca-44a6-a2f7-888bf0f58656 X-Archives-Hash: 2429060141a9b963e8b3d368f8a11aad Grant wrote: >>> I need to test a kernel config change on a remote system. Is there a >>> safe way to do this? The fallback thing in grub has never worked for >>> me. When does that ever work? >> >> >> You can press ESC in the Grub screen and it will take you to text-only mode. >> There, you select an entry, press "e" and edit it. Press ENTER when you're >> finished, and then press "b" to boot your modified entry. >> >> That way, you can boot whatever kernel you want if the current one doesn't >> work. > > I can't do that remotely though. I'm probably asking for something > that doesn't exist. > > - Grant > > There is a couple people on here that handle remote machines. I'd be shocked if there isn't a way to do this. Just give them a bit to see the thread. I vaguely recall someone mentioning this but since my remote machine is about 20 feet away, I didn't make notes. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"