Package: release-notes Severity: wishlist Hi,
People who do not have immediate physical access to their boxes may be nervous about testing the chainloading of grub2. It'd be nice to have something in an appendix that tells them how to use grub1 to chainload boot grub2 only once, and fallback to regular booting with grub1 That way if the chainload fails a simple power cycle will bring their box back up. The technique is shown here, vis the grub1 "Booting once-only" and "Booting fallback systems" info page (the paths and args are for example only): # Boot the saved default default saved fallback 0 timeout 10 title Debian squeeze kernel root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 initrd /boot/initrd # If we're using this to boot save it as the default savedefault 0 title Debian squeeze kernel (rescue mode) root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 single initrd /boot/initrd savedfault fallback title Chainload to grub2 chainloader /boot/grub2 # After trying grub2 once go back booting with grub1. savedefault fallback Then to try chainloading with grub2 the admin must run: # grub-set-default 3 ;# 3 in this case being chainload grub2 Before trying grub2 the admin can arrange for someone at the remote location to power cycle should there be a problem. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.8 APT prefers oldstable APT policy: (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org