Re: Feature suggestion to grub

[Marco Gerards]

Aki Tossavainen <address@hidden> writes:

> This is something I've been wondering a while, but would it be possible to
> build a "failsafe" system for grub which would work as follows:
>
> When grub loads an image and starts it, it'll write into a well-known
> location value (say: 0), which means that the boot has not succeeded. Then
> the booted system could write using a tool into the same location a value
> (say: 1), which means that the boot succeeded. If the computer is booted
> before the value has been changed, grub would choose next option or
> failsafe
> option to boot.
>
> Does this sound like something that could be made?

Scripting is on the TODO, it is likely that for GRUB 2 such things
will be made possible.  I have no idea yet how this will work...

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Marco