[TriLUG] rebooting with grub

Tanner Lovelace lovelace at wayfarer.org
Fri Aug 23 13:38:04 EDT 2002


On Fri, 2002-08-23 at 13:18, Mark Turner wrote:
> Can anyone tell me offhand if grub has the equivalent of "lilo -R" ? I 
> need to boot a new kernel but don't want to commit to it.
> 
> I can't seem to find any info on this.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Mark
> 
>
I take it this is remotely right?  I don't know of any, but that
doesn't mean much.

For those of you who, btw, don't know what lilo -R does, it allows
you to specify that lilo boot to a specific kernel on the next boot,
but for subsequent boots boot to the default kernel.  This is useful,
say for instance, if you are testing a new kernel in a remote site.
You can run lilo -R, reboot, see if it worked.  If it didn't, you just
have the people maning the data center just hit the reset button
and voila! it comes back with the known working kernel.

Tanner
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