[Devil-Linux-discuss] testing remote ugrades [was Re: installation on CF card]

[Eli H. <el...@se...>]

Frank,

On Tuesday 24 October 2006 04:52, Frank Weis wrote:
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>
> I then create a new grub entry that selects the new
> (vmlinuz, initrd.gz, bootcd.iso, etc.tar.bz2) set using the handy
> DL_config and DL_device command-line args. If all goes well, I copy
> everything in place and go back to normal. If the upgrade should fail
> (hasn't happened yet) I'd need to talk a local guy through hooking up a
> keyboard/monitor, and selecting the old grub entry.
>
> Frank

Have you tried GRUB's boot once or fallback options to test your remote 
upgrades? It might save you from needing the remote hands -- except maybe to 
just push the reset button.

http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Booting-once_002donly.html
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Booting-fallback-systems.html

-Eli