RE: failsafe booting (again)

[Gregg C Levine]

Hello from Gregg C Levine usually with Jedi Knight Computers
It strikes me, as an interesting idea, as well. And one which I would like to
follow the activities of. I recently bought a book on writing Linux Device
drivers, probably the same one Alessandro wrote. I am hoping that I can apply
what I am learning through it, to my work.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden Behalf Of
> Alessandro Rubini
> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 7:20 AM
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: failsafe booting (again)
>
>
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> 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 enabling the boot loader to read some
> input and use that information to choose the default menu entry. This
> way I can boot one of several entries without the need to hook
> anything to the computer, not even a serial port. This facility is
> something I have been needing for several years; after not being able
> to hack lilo now I'm very low on time to do that on grub.
>
> Is someone else interested in this kind of functionality? Is there
> some hope to get it included in the official grub, if it's general
> enough -- when I finally get to implement it?
>
> The idea is just to read an input port, it's up to the user to bind a
> switch to the parallel, serial or joystick port, or whether to connect
> active devices to those input pins.
>
> /alessandro
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