From: Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Safe way to test a new kernel?
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:17:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+czFiAHNWxma3Zdd6CrTENBj07DHXKGOJu31bHFm=-0hu7seg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN0CFw1Lkr+KJeO5kfoMncuq3wqHhUnBy-vePXzYddOmDT35rA@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 9:08 PM, Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> 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.
What's the nature of the remote box?
For example, I have a xen vps for which I can access the console via
ssh to the xen host machine. I can get at the grub menu that way. I
think grub supports serial consoles, but I don't know...
--
:wq
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-25 2:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-25 2:00 [gentoo-user] Safe way to test a new kernel? Grant
2012-02-25 2:05 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2012-02-25 2:08 ` Grant
2012-02-25 2:17 ` Michael Mol [this message]
2012-02-25 2:26 ` Dale
2012-02-25 12:46 ` Francisco Ares
2012-02-25 2:32 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-02-25 12:18 ` Mick
2012-02-25 12:33 ` Nilesh Govindrajan
2012-02-25 18:35 ` Grant
2012-02-25 13:52 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-02-25 18:33 ` Grant
2012-02-25 8:57 ` Robert David
2012-02-25 18:32 ` Grant
2012-02-25 19:03 ` Robert David
2012-02-25 19:25 ` Grant
2012-02-25 19:50 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-02-25 20:44 ` Robert David
2012-02-26 5:33 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-02-25 2:10 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2012-02-25 14:04 ` Alan Mackenzie
2012-02-25 15:23 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2012-02-25 18:30 ` Grant
2012-02-26 7:16 ` Grant
2012-02-26 13:19 ` Alex Schuster
2012-02-26 14:35 ` Grant
2012-02-26 15:12 ` Alex Schuster
2012-02-26 15:20 ` Nilesh Govindrajan
2012-02-25 13:47 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2012-02-27 14:39 ` James
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