On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 11:51:15PM +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote: > If you do not have physical access to the machine then serial access is > a must (or some alternative, like IPMI-emulated serial console if you > have the hardware). For example if you have to update the kernel and > something goes wrong, a seral console can be _very_ handy (you can > configure a once-only boot with the new kernel but that does not help to > diagnose _why_ it does not boot). Updating with a serial console through the network is something now recommended in the Release Notes: http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html I would be interested in documenting how you can do a once-only boot with the kernel (or linking to available documentation) for the Release Notes. Regards Javier
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