On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 08:52:07PM -0800, Nate Lawson wrote: > On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Rashim Gupta wrote: > > I have a machine to which I remotely log in and do > > kernel programming. It has two kernel versions - one is WORKING and the > > other is TEST - the one I am presently working on. Is it possible that > > the bootloader tries to first load TEST but in case TEST panics then > > it loads the WORKING version of kernel without user intervention ? My > > initial guess would be to use loader scripts. Any suggestions? > > man 8 reboot, esp. -k option.
Errr... if I'm reading the original message right, then reboot -k is exactly the opposite of what Rashim is asking for - if the wording of the -stable manual page is correct. According to the manual page, if we try reboot -k TEST, and it fails, the system will keep trying to boot TEST until somebody walks up to the machine and manually changes the booted kernel by interrupting the loader. I believe this is not quite what Rashim asked for... G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 .siht ekil ti gnidaer eb d'uoy ,werbeH ni erew ecnetnes siht fI
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