Hi Brett,
Is there a way to boot to a temporary kernel non-interactively? I.e.,
I need to automate an Itanium64 to boot newly compiled kernels, and if
the kernel fails, to be able to fallback to a known good kernel, so the
system can continue testing other kernels.
Thus, I don't think I can do it at the elilo commandline, nor use the
elilo -p option. Is there another way that I could do it that could be
more easily automated?
Thanks,
Bryce
Jeff Sadowski wrote:
> Im very familiar with lilo and would like to
> learn elilo. I just installed debian on my
> ia64 itanium from hp and I need to upgrade everything
> I need the 2.6.8.1 kernel with iscsi drivers and all
> ... Anyways I want to experiment with the new kernel
> my question is how do I pass a one time boot option to
> elilo?
There are a couple of ways. If you want to pass everything on the
command line, just pass the name of the kernel, and any kernel
arguments to elilo. i.e. (from the README):
fs0:\> elilo -i initrd-2.4.9 vmlinuz-2.4.9 root=/dev/sda2
console="ttyS0,115200n8"
Assuming you"ve modified your elilo.conf to contain the new kernel and
proper kernel parameters in a label/stanza, you can also pass the "-p"
option to elilo, to ensure that you get an interactive prompt, then
when you see the "ELILO" prompt, hit <tab><tab> to list the available
labels, and type the one you want to boot from.
Cheers!
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Brett Johnson <brett@xxxxxx>
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