Re: Why Grub? Must I Switch?

[Fernando Gutierrez <fernando_gh@terra.com.pe>]

James,
And what if you dont have physical access to the machine? then you cant 
make a selection if you made the entry in the grub config, so is there 
an option to (without user interaction) boot a not-default kernel with 
grub?

The only way i found was to run grub with the --config-file option and 
obviously create another config file just for that time, then i would 
re-run grub without that option... is there any other way?

Thanks,

Fernando

James Griffith wrote:

> Grub is probably the best boot loader out... it is fully configurable 
> and if you want to set it to boot a certain kernel next boot you do it 
> as you are booting or make a boot selection so you can boot to that 
> one when ever you need
>
> James Griffith
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Carlson" <wcarlson@vh.org>
> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 1:42 PM
> Subject: Re: Why Grub? Must I Switch?
>
>
> > On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Pigeon wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 10:57:30PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote:
> > >
> > > And with the advantage of being able to read filesystems other than
> > > FAT16. My preferred method of booting used to be a weeny DOS partition
> > > with LOADLIN.EXE on it, until I discovered grub.
> >
> > Does grub have functionality similiar to lilo's "lilo -R <kernel>" yet?
> >
> > For those that don't know, this specifies the kernel and parameters 
> > to use
> > for the next boot ONLY, all before the machine is actually rebooted. The
> > machine should (hopefully) boot without any user interaction and in the
> > event something bonks, on reset will boot with the default
> > kernel/parameters. This feature is dead necessary for those of us
> > supporting machines that we have never actually physically touched.
> >
> > Later,
> >
> > Bill Carlson
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