On Feb 25, 2012 9:14 AM, "Grant" <emailgr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> 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? > > > > > > You can press ESC in the Grub screen and it will take you to text-only mode. > > There, you select an entry, press "e" and edit it. Press ENTER when you're > > finished, and then press "b" to boot your modified entry. > > > > That way, you can boot whatever kernel you want if the current one doesn't > > work. > > I can't do that remotely though. I'm probably asking for something > that doesn't exist. > > - Grant >
Situations like these that made me decide with great conviction to always deploy my servers virtualized, even if the box in question will only host a single VM. Now, if I lost my intelligence for a couple of seconds and somehow ended up with a VM that's no longer accessible remotely, I just connect to the virtual console. The flip side? Now I'm getting too daring/careless, and the uptime now drops below my (self-imposed) target of 99.99% :-P Rgds,
