Re: PATCH (updated): 'lilo -R' functionality

2002-12-17 Thread Paul Hedderly
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 03:05:44AM +0900, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: Sorry, I don't like this, either. Perhaps I should have made it clear why I don't like it. I actually think it's the cleanest solution around... The reason is that it always modifies the boot image directly. This is

Re: PATCH (updated): 'lilo -R' functionality

2002-12-10 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
At Tue, 10 Dec 2002 15:28:29 +, Andrew Stribblehill wrote: Please apply it; it's not a huge patch but I'm sure it'd be useful for more than just me. I agree that the patch can be useful, but I don't like it, because it works in a dirty way like LILO. I might be convinced, if you could

Re: PATCH (updated): 'lilo -R' functionality

2002-12-10 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
[I added bug-grub into Cc:, because we don't talk about secrets.] At Tue, 10 Dec 2002 16:58:39 +, Andrew Stribblehill wrote: How about this... Sorry, I don't like this, either. Perhaps I should have made it clear why I don't like it. The reason is that it always modifies the boot image

Re: PATCH (updated): 'lilo -R' functionality

2002-03-07 Thread Ilguiz Latypov
Nice feature, I haven't tried that with GRUB yet. By the way, since GRUB can parse the /boot/gru/menu.lst file at run-time, why not just modify that configuration file and restore it from the startup script? Ilguiz On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Keir Fraser wrote: Really? I generally use 'lilo -R'

Re: PATCH (updated): 'lilo -R' functionality

2002-03-07 Thread Gordon Matzigkeit
Ilguiz Latypov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nice feature, I haven't tried that with GRUB yet. By the way, since GRUB can parse the /boot/gru/menu.lst file at run-time, why not just modify that configuration file and restore it from the startup script? If the system reboots before the

Re: PATCH (updated): 'lilo -R' functionality

2002-03-07 Thread Keir Fraser
Nice feature, I haven't tried that with GRUB yet. By the way, since GRUB can parse the /boot/gru/menu.lst file at run-time, why not just modify that configuration file and restore it from the startup script? Possibly feasible -- but would require updating an ASCII file (somehat harder than

Re: PATCH (updated): 'lilo -R' functionality

2002-03-07 Thread Keir Fraser
Nice feature, I haven't tried that with GRUB yet. By the way, since GRUB can parse the /boot/gru/menu.lst file at run-time, why not just modify that configuration file and restore it from the startup script? Possibly feasible -- but would require updating an ASCII file (somehat

PATCH (updated): 'lilo -R' functionality

2002-03-05 Thread Keir Fraser
The following is a slight modification to the patch I submitted a week or so ago. This will cause GRUB to skip displaying the boot menu if a one-shot default has been specified (just as lilo does with '-R'). Same caveats as for previous patch: * The new 'savedefault' function in the GRUB shell

Re: PATCH (updated): 'lilo -R' functionality

2002-03-05 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 02:26:55PM +, Keir Fraser wrote: The following is a slight modification to the patch I submitted a week or so ago. This will cause GRUB to skip displaying the boot menu if a one-shot default has been specified (just as lilo does with '-R'). Oh, I rather not do that