On 2008-11-20 16:13 +0100, Arnau wrote: > Hi all, > > This is a question that probably has appeared a lot of times here but > I haven't found a solution. > > Yesterday I went to the data center where our servers are > hosted. There I tried to upgrade the kernel of one of our > servers. It's a Dell Poweredge 1950 running a 2.6.18-6-686-bigmem > installed via aptitude, no manual compilation. I installed > linux-image-2.6.26-bpo.1-686-bigmem and rebooted it. Afterwards there > were no network, drivers problems. > > Thanks to I was there I was able to reboot again the server with > another kernel version. > > And here comes my question, is there a way to ensure that the kernel > will work? I don't think so, but how you do this? upgrade a kernel > remotely? I have found the grub's fallback option, but I don't think > it'd solve my problem as the server started fine, the only problem > there were no network.
One possibility that comes to mind is to write a script that tests the network and reboots the server if it is down. This can be an init script or a cron script. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
