Grub to run non-default kernel ONCE

[Hannes Mayer]

Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 09:22:40PM +0200, Hannes Mayer wrote:
> 
>>Does that also work if the kernel panics ?
> 
> 
> On a running system, you can put a value in /proc/sys/kernel, and the system
> will reboot after that many seconds after a panic. Very useful for a remote
> system. (There's an /etc/sysctl.conf setting for this, too.) There's
> probably a kernel config option somewhere to make the default be something
> other than '0' (which is disabled), which I suppose you'd want to make sure
> it's active immediately at boot.
> 

Matthew,

pretty cool! Thanks a bunch for this info!! I added it to my HOWTO's.

Cheers,
Hannes.