>> 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
Perfect! That's exactly what I need. Here is an alternate method too: http://fabbritech.blogspot.com/2009/07/make-grub-boot-something-once.html I will test this ASAP. - Grant
