On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 05:06:56PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > On Friday 25 June 2004 16:07, Robert Millan wrote: > > How do you tell grub to boot a particular entry only _once_ without > > modifying menu.lst manualy? As I understand it, grub-set-default sets > > the default permanently. Perhaps we should add a FIFO list in > > /boot/grub/default that GRUB pops from untill a terminator integer is > > found (e.g. -1). What do you think? > > I'm sorry, but I don't understand your question. Could you point out > what is bad in the procedures written in the manual?
My fault, I missed some context. The Debian version of GRUB includes one of those patches that added support for --once by embedding a once_only bit in stage files. Based on this, I wrote a "grub-reboot" script that mimics "lilo -R" functionality. Since setting up GRUB to boot a particular option once, then fallback to default requires editing menu.lst, grub-reboot can't now be implemented gracefuly. I think some sort of interface like that in /boot/grub/default would be quite adequate. It could also allow for testing a list of kernels untill default is reached. -- Robert Millan "[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work." -- J.R.R.T., Ainulindale (Silmarillion) _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub