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Subject: Re: Periodic jobs triggering panics in 10.1 and 10.2
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On 10/12/2015 05:38, Karl Denninger wrote:
> Beadm allows you to set the "next boot" and works as expected.
> 
> You can't select from the boot loader but you can certainly ping-pong
> between a working and test environment easily (I do this all the time)

Being able to easily switch between BEs during boot is a part of the BE
experience.  Think of a situation where a new BE gets a kernel panic half way
through the boot process.

-- 
Andriy Gapon