Re: Feature suggestion to grub

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

On Saturday 22 January 2005 15:03, Marco Gerards wrote:
> 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...

GRUB Legacy already has this feature.

Okuji