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Getting the most out of Grub

Submitted by sandip on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 07:40
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The grub bootloader is particularly useful, especially when upgrading and testing new kernels. I recently found a way to modifiy the default boot config to make it useful when you wish to remotely upgrade a kernel and boot into it once only without being at the console to change the default back.

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Booting once only with grub

Submitted by sandip on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 07:46.

# grub
grub>savedefault --default=0 --once

If new kernel boots up without error, edit grub.conf to make the new kernel as the default.

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grub savedefault

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 03/02/2013 - 18:56.

echo "savedefault --default=0 --once" | grub --batch

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