On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 12:26 AM, Dale <[email protected]> wrote: > Grant 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 > > > > > > > There is a couple people on here that handle remote machines. I'd be > shocked if there isn't a way to do this. Just give them a bit to see > the thread. I vaguely recall someone mentioning this but since my > remote machine is about 20 feet away, I didn't make notes. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > > -- > I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or > how you interpreted my words! > > Miss the compile output? Hint: > EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n" >
That's right, there are many embedded machines out there with upgrades once in a while. Perhaps you would get better results asking at gentoo-embedded list. Francisco
