I am trying to build a reliable linux applience which I can do remote upgrades on and have it failover if something goes wrong with the update. My idea is to setup a recovery partition , boot partition, and system partition. When I need to do an update... simply edit grub to boot from the recovery partition and once there.. update the system partition. Then have it boot the system partition. BUT .. the problem is that if it fails.. for example if it has a bad kernel..once it is rebooted it will boot back into the recovery partition and not the bad partition. I was thinking having the system do something like write a file on a sucessful boot and if possible have grub check for it .. and if it is there( or missing) then boot into the recovery partition. But I don't think grub can do something like this..
Anyway.. that is the problem..and I'm not sure of what solution there is.. or how to solve the problem.. do you guys know of a way to do something like this with or even without grub? Or if not know where I could get info on doing something like this... thanks Johnathan _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
