On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 11:35:33PM -0400, Bruce Hill, Jr. wrote > Unless I misunderstand you, after you issue "lilo" to write to the MBR, > then issue: > lilo -R experimental > > where experimental is the name of the kernel image you want to boot. The R > creates a one time command which it will use the next time you boot, then > it will be erased. > > And give the kernel an append statement: > append="panic=10" > > so that if the kernel does not boot, you get automatically rebooted back > into the good kernel.
Thanks. That's exactly what I was looking for. I vaguely remembered reading about something this, but my Google-fu didn't quite work. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>