Re: failsafe booting (again)

2000-10-05 Thread Alessandro Rubini
The idea to somehow control boot operation without human interaction is an interesting one. Actually, one of the reasons I got to use grub is to be able to hack in my code more easily -- tried several times to understand lilo's internals but gave up after hours. What I personally want to do is

RE: failsafe booting (again)

2000-10-05 Thread Alessandro Rubini
Hi. What I personally want to do is enabling the boot loader to read some input and use that information to choose the default menu entry. It strikes me, as an interesting idea, as well. And one which I would like to follow the activities of. But Okuji is right, diskless boot is a good