Archie Cobbs writes:
> Jaye Mathisen writes:
> > It would be kind of cool if when managing a remote system if /kernel
> > failed to boot, then on the next boot, the loader will fire up
> > /kernel.old, or a /kernel.somethingorother.
> > 
> > Sort of a kernel-clean flag.  Then 300 miles away, I can try stuff, and
> > have at least some assurance that I'll eventually be able to get back to a
> > kernel I could use.  
> 
> In case in that discussion it wasn't clear, there *is* a way
> to do this: see man nextboot.

Oops, sorry.. nextboot of course doesn't work with the new bootblocks..

-Archie

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