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.

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Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>

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