On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 03:20:34PM +0100, Klavs Klavsen wrote: > On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 14:28, Georges Toth wrote: > > > vserver patch doesn't apply cleanly (or even close to), as of > > > gentoo-sources-2.4.20. > > > > i don't use gentoo-sources...kernels > > i use kernels from kernel.org and patch them manually... :-) > > Well it was either that - or patch the vanilla with freeswan and USAGI - > linux-ipv6.org patch manually. I tried both, but they change among other > things, the schedueler so the vserver patch won't work. > > I must admit that I'm sorry about vserver not working with the closest > thing to a proper ipv6 implementation Linux has. I need IPv6 - and IPSec > support in IPv6 - so I don't really have a choice :( > > In 2.5 these patches are part of the vanilla kernel - anyone have a > vserver patch for 2.5? then I'd be glad to try it out. > > p.s. I run a headless server and was wondering if anyone had a clever > way of booting on a kernel only once - so if the box crashed and I > rebooted it - it wouldn't use the same kernel - but default to boot the > last working kernel instead. p.s. I use Grub.
lilo has a 'on-next-boot' feature (-R) to set the boot preference once, didn't find such a thing for grub ... but although grub is very nice, it misses some features ... for example I had to add an option to pass the selected console (for serial/vga console choice) to the booting kernel ... best, Herbert > > -- > Regards, > Klavs Klavsen, GSEC > > Open Source Server, Security and Network Consulting > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.EnableIT.dk > Phone: +45 3284 4372 Mobile: +45 2342 4372 > PGP: 7E063C62/2873 188C 968E 600D D8F8 B8DA 3D3A 0B79 7E06 3C62 > > "Open Source Software - Sometimes you get more than you paid for."
