On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 07:35:37PM +0000, John wrote: > I am still looking for a clean way to upgrade my Debian box. > > Background is that the m/c is the interface to the world from the LAN, > runs headless, and is fairly difficult to access physically. My > attempt to upgrade from Whezzy to Jessie broke as it would not > run/load the 3.16.0-4-amd64 kernel, and after a painful period I > managed to get Jessie running with the Whezzy 3.2.0-4-amd64 kernel. I > have uploaded the 3.16.0-5-amd64. What I would like would be to try a > boot into the new kernel, but if that fails for the next and > subsequent boots to be to the (working) Whezzy kernel. I think I > heard once that there was such a mechanism but have not found it. > BTW it is running grub. > grub-reboot (8) - set the default boot entry for GRUB, for the next boot only
Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez
