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>>> I need to test a kernel config change on a remote system. Is there a |
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>>> safe way to do this? The fallback thing in grub has never worked for |
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>>> me. When does that ever work? |
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>> Oh crap, you said "remote system". Somehow I missed that. Ignore my |
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>> previous post since obviously accessing Grub on a remote machine would |
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>> require a hardware VNC module (if you had that, then you wouldn't have |
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>> posted about the issue in the first place, I assume.) |
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>> The way I dealt with it, is to use the "boot once" functionality of Grub: |
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>> http://weichong78.blogspot.com/2007/04/grub-test-kernel-once.html |
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> Perfect! That's exactly what I need. Here is an alternate method too: |
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> http://fabbritech.blogspot.com/2009/07/make-grub-boot-something-once.html |
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> I will test this ASAP. |
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> - Grant |
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I get "Unrecognized command" from savedefault in grub: |
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grub> savedefault --default=1 --once |
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Error 27: Unrecognized command |
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I re-emerged grub with /boot mounted and ran grub-install but I get |
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the same error. Does anyone know how to fix this? I'm on |
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grub-0.97-r10. |
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- Grant |
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