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On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 11:35:33PM -0400, Bruce Hill, Jr. wrote |
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> Unless I misunderstand you, after you issue "lilo" to write to the MBR, |
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> then issue: |
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> lilo -R experimental |
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> where experimental is the name of the kernel image you want to boot. The R |
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> creates a one time command which it will use the next time you boot, then |
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> it will be erased. |
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> And give the kernel an append statement: |
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> append="panic=10" |
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> so that if the kernel does not boot, you get automatically rebooted back |
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> into the good kernel. |
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Thanks. That's exactly what I was looking for. I vaguely remembered |
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reading about something this, but my Google-fu didn't quite work. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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