On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 04:13:09PM +0100, Arnau wrote: > Yesterday I went to the data center where our servers are hosted. > There I tried to upgrade the kernel of one of our servers. It's a Dell > Poweredge 1950 running a 2.6.18-6-686-bigmem installed via aptitude, no > manual compilation. I installed linux-image-2.6.26-bpo.1-686-bigmem and > rebooted it. Afterwards there were no network, drivers problems. > > Thanks to I was there I was able to reboot again the server with > another kernel version. > > And here comes my question, is there a way to ensure that the kernel > will work? I don't think so, but how you do this? upgrade a kernel > remotely? I have found the grub's fallback option, but I don't think > it'd solve my problem as the server started fine, the only problem there > were no network.
The only thing I can think of is if you have grub set up to use a serial console and have a modem (or a terminal server) connected to the serial port, or some other way of getting bios and grub console remotely. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
