On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 9:08 PM, 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.
What's the nature of the remote box? For example, I have a xen vps for which I can access the console via ssh to the xen host machine. I can get at the grub menu that way. I think grub supports serial consoles, but I don't know... -- :wq
