Mark Knecht writes: > Having a second install is a reasonable idea. I suppose I can probably > install that remotely but I cannot test it remotely (AFAIK) without > someone handy to choose the right line in the grub menu...
You can use the grub-set-default command to boot another than the default entry: default saved fallback 0 ... title System A kernel (hd0,0)/A title System B kernel (hd0,1)/B System A is your default system. When you have installed B, activate the 2nd entry with "grub-set-default 1" (grub counts from 0). Put something like "sleep 600 & reboot" into B's /etc/conf.d/local.start that will make it reboot after a while, unless you are able to log in from remote and kill the sleep command. Now reboot. B will be started. Try to log in. If it fails, wait a little, and try again. This time A should be up again. Unless you have a kernel panic, and the system is just halted. Does anyone know if there is something one could do about that? Wonko