Re: Feature suggestion to grub

[Aki Tossavainen]

Um. Sorry, but I seem to be missing something here..
Yes there is failsafe option, but afaik it only affects when the kernel
cannot be booted. What if the kernel panics after it has been started for
example because it cannot mount root fs? How do you tell grub to boot the
next kernel next time?

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Aki Tossavainen


On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:

> 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
>
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