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 1S1MPO-0006xw-MD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 25 Feb 2012 18:31:53 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A11A1E0AD7; Sat, 25 Feb 2012 18:31:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ee0-f53.google.com (mail-ee0-f53.google.com [74.125.83.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AE02E0AD7 for ; Sat, 25 Feb 2012 18:30:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eekb47 with SMTP id b47so663751eek.40 for ; Sat, 25 Feb 2012 10:30:30 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of emailgrant@gmail.com designates 10.14.132.203 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.14.132.203; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of emailgrant@gmail.com designates 10.14.132.203 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=emailgrant@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=emailgrant@gmail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.14.132.203]) by 10.14.132.203 with SMTP id o51mr4172198eei.76.1330194630933 (num_hops = 1); Sat, 25 Feb 2012 10:30:30 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=irkyKu0dyqtQIgt+kCc1tA3UDRv1nbuQ7oT8NlamESA=; b=InBCb7SWDFJV7uHQg2zS5xEsw5aDNzFTmG8gHPlAglES84o4H2vyQU2ngun3YneDU+ tjhRfYwjMoeTFjO4MrOeLO0x2R6YMOdYs3WLP034uXA/Xa/NGhFM3CBa0g/ku/HQvxbw kS5v+mfBkVtNG1tAicCoOL87rRLPXimCQQR+A= 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 Received: by 10.14.132.203 with SMTP id o51mr3143422eei.76.1330194630732; Sat, 25 Feb 2012 10:30:30 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.213.113.148 with HTTP; Sat, 25 Feb 2012 10:30:30 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 10:30:30 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Safe way to test a new kernel? From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 6cf66458-d0d8-42a0-8aa4-acf376b9b62d X-Archives-Hash: e13e24aedfcba32858aa570974372196 >> I need to test a kernel config change on a remote system. =A0Is there a >> safe way to do this? =A0The fallback thing in grub has never worked for >> me. =A0When does that ever work? > > > Oh crap, you said "remote system". =A0Somehow I missed that. =A0Ignore my > previous post since obviously accessing Grub on a remote machine would > require a hardware VNC module (if you had that, then you wouldn't have > posted about the issue in the first place, I assume.) > > The way I dealt with it, is to use the "boot once" functionality of Grub: > > http://weichong78.blogspot.com/2007/04/grub-test-kernel-once.html Perfect! That's exactly what I need. Here is an alternate method too: http://fabbritech.blogspot.com/2009/07/make-grub-boot-something-once.html I will test this ASAP. - Grant