Upgrading a kernel in a remote server without fears, how
Hi all,
This is a question that probably has appeared a lot of times here but
I haven't found a solution.
Yesterday I went to the data center where our servers are hosted.
There I tried to upgrade the kernel of one of our servers. It's a Dell
Poweredge 1950 running a 2.6.18-6-686-bigmem installed via aptitude, no
manual compilation. I installed linux-image-2.6.26-bpo.1-686-bigmem and
rebooted it. Afterwards there were no network, drivers problems.
Thanks to I was there I was able to reboot again the server with
another kernel version.
And here comes my question, is there a way to ensure that the kernel
will work? I don't think so, but how you do this? upgrade a kernel
remotely? I have found the grub's fallback option, but I don't think
it'd solve my problem as the server started fine, the only problem there
were no network.
Cheers!!
--
Arnau
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