James B. Byrne wrote: > On Mon, June 9, 2014 11:46, Steve Clark wrote: <snip> > implementation as it necessarily involves a restart of the test system. I > am trying to discover if there is some way of restarting a headless server > and use a specific grub entry instead of the default. I want to leave the > default unchanged until I can prove that any manual changes I make do not > negatively impact a system restart. > > If anyone knows if this is possible and if so, how it is done, I would > welcome the information. That's a no-brainer: change the default= line in grub from 0 to whatever the entry number is. Note that I'm not sure what happens if you add a kernel update in there, whether the post-install scripts will increment the number so as to continue to point to the correct kernel.