[syslinux] fail-safe boot - how can this be done?

[Thorsten von Eicken]

Thanks for the suggestion! Dunno whether syslinux supports something like this, gotta check.

The only problem is that if the boot fails before the 'production' kernel can do the 'lilo -R fail-safe' I'm stuck. So, for example, if I update the kernel itself and it doesn't boot I'm dead.

Thorsten

At 02:13 PM 10/7/2004 -0700, you wrote:

>Don't know about syslinux support for this. But Lilo supports an option
>(-R) to specify what image to boot on the next reboot.
>
>So you boot up with your 'production' kernel and run 'lilo -R
>fail-safe'. Now if your machine reboots uncleanly it will come up with
>the 'fail-safe' kernel.
>
>In the shutdown sequence you could add another line 'lilo -R
>production'. So if the machine shuts down cleanly, it will come up with
>the 'production' kernel.
>
>HTH.
>
>ciao,
>A
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