Re: How to use a particular kernel for only one boot
On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 07:35:37PM +0000, John wrote:
> I am still looking for a clean way to upgrade my Debian box.
>
> Background is that the m/c is the interface to the world from the LAN,
> runs headless, and is fairly difficult to access physically. My
> attempt to upgrade from Whezzy to Jessie broke as it would not
> run/load the 3.16.0-4-amd64 kernel, and after a painful period I
> managed to get Jessie running with the Whezzy 3.2.0-4-amd64 kernel. I
> have uploaded the 3.16.0-5-amd64. What I would like would be to try a
> boot into the new kernel, but if that fails for the next and
> subsequent boots to be to the (working) Whezzy kernel. I think I
> heard once that there was such a mechanism but have not found it.
> BTW it is running grub.
>
grub-reboot (8) - set the default boot entry for GRUB, for the next
boot only
Regards,
-Roberto
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Roberto C. Sánchez
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