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There’s been a local root exploit discovered in the Linux kernel recently, which obliged me to manually compile new kernels on some of my servers. The problem with that : I rarely compile new kernels for these servers, so I’m not sure it will boot at all. Moreover, the servers are located in a datacenter I can’t access easily, so manually choosing the kernel in the grub boot menu is not an option. Fortunately, grub provides a feature to help with that. (more…)