Re: Upgrading Kernel Remotely

Easy, just read these two short pages...

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Remote_Kernel_Upgrade
http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/AutoRebootOnPanic

These instructions worked fine on my CentOS 4.3 systems, with one small
speed-bump. CentOS does not include the grub-set-default script, so I had to
copy one from here:

http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/raw/on/usr/src/grub/grub-0.95/util/grub-set-default.in

Cheers!

--Eric

"slick_shoes" <slick_shoes_mailing@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:20060906120409.11c88491@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Wed, 6 Sep 2006 08:08:15 -0700
"Eric Robinson" <eric{nospam}@pmcipa.com> wrote:

I managed to do it last night and it worked. I used a grub technique
that configures the new kernel as a tentative default but provides
automatic failback to the previous kernel if necessary. Worked like a
champ!


Awesome, I didn't know you could do that. Would you mind
briefly explaining how you set that up?

Thanks,
slick_shoes


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