Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Safe way to test a new kernel?

[Grant]

>> I need to test a kernel config change on a remote system.  Is there a
>> safe way to do this?  The fallback thing in grub has never worked for
>> me.  When does that ever work?
>
>
> Oh crap, you said "remote system".  Somehow I missed that.  Ignore 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