Hello, Nikos. On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 04:10:10AM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 25/02/12 04:00, 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?
> Oh crap, you said "remote system". Somehow I missed that. Ignore my > previous post since obviously accessing Grub on a remote machine would > require a hardware VNC module (if you had that, then you wouldn't have > posted about the issue in the first place, I assume.) > The way I dealt with it, is to use the "boot once" functionality of Grub: > http://weichong78.blogspot.com/2007/04/grub-test-kernel-once.html > I didn't bother with the panic handler, since I had remote hard-reset > functionality (I recommend it; it can save your day.) What is this "remote hard-reset functionality", if you don't mind me asking? Do you mean somebody on the far end of a telephone line? -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
