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 1S9OZp-0001gX-A0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:27:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8DD56E0BD5; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:27:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCD30E0B3A for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:24:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 059611B402A for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:24:58 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.21 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.21 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-1.200, BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id r-9NfzavP9Rw for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:24:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7B3751B4029 for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:24:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S9OWq-00089K-LW for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:24:44 +0100 Received: from adsl-69-234-186-216.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.186.216]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:24:44 +0100 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-186-216.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:24:44 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Initramfs or move /usr to /, oh my... Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 15:24:44 -0700 Message-ID: References: <4F661EE7.9040904@libertytrek.org> 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=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-186-216.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120312 Thunderbird/11.0 In-Reply-To: X-Archives-Salt: f6a64d73-b7b6-44c4-8a38-88637e31fa16 X-Archives-Hash: 9a2bb9f9ce34b9f406140e981f2a012d On 03/18/2012 11:52 AM, walt wrote: > The other nifty hint was to add "panic=10" as a kernel parameter in > grub.conf (menu.lst) so that your remote system will reboot in 10 > seconds if the kernel panics during boot. That will let you test > (remotely) if a kernel parameter like "noinitrd" breaks your machine. Heh. I learn a lot from reading my posts -- when I figure out why my first reply was wrong :p Now that I've thought about it, I assume you have only ssh access to your remote machine, so you can't see the grub boot prompt, right? Maybe the remote machine doesn't even pause at the boot prompt because no one is there to watch it? I'm curious how remote servers work in real life because in my next life I wanna come back as a sysadmin :)