option for "boot to kernel.old"

Paul Herman pherman at frenchfries.net
Sun Nov 14 10:37:28 PST 2004


On Sun, 14 Nov 2004, Maxim Sobolev wrote:

I've always had on my wishlist a way to optionaly have /kernel 
"expire" in such a way that if the timestamp on /kernel is older 
than, say, 10 minutes, then boot from /kernel.old.
[...]
man 8 nextboot is in order.
That'll work!  I didn't even know about nextboot, thanks.

-Paul.





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