[ale] Creating a failsafe boot

[Richard Kolkovich]

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On 08/04/06 09:38, John Wells declared:
> Guys,
> 
> Just purchased a dedicated server and will be installing Xen shortly. In
> my experience, Xen installs are not without their share of kernel panics
> and woops! moments.

I agree wholeheartedly.  I tried it for a bit on my home machine before
scrapping the idea "for now".  I am currently building up one of my
basement servers to be a Xen box.

> I suspect the only way to do this is to be *really* careful, but is there
> any sort of mechanism to cause grub to boot a failsafe kernel after a
> certain number of attempts at booting another kernel? Without physical
> access, I have to be sure this box comes back up at some point.

AFAIK, Grub's failsafe options are in case the kernel specified is not
found, etc.  I do not think it has any way of knowing if there was a
kernel panic or not.  Hopefully, someone can prove me wrong.  :)

> 
> Thanks guys.
> 
> John
> 
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