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Re: Patch for 'lilo -R' functionality
From: |
Paul Hedderly |
Subject: |
Re: Patch for 'lilo -R' functionality |
Date: |
Fri, 22 Feb 2002 12:55:15 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.3.27i |
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 12:09:21PM +0000, Keir Fraser wrote:
> The following is patch to grub-0.90 which provides one-shot setting of
> the default boot entry. If the 'savedentry' field in the stage2 file
> has a ONCEONLY flag set, the entry is reset to zero at boot time.
>
> The 'savedefault' function has been rewritten for the GRUB shell, do
> that you can do something like:
> # savedefault --default=1 --once
> This specifies a one-shot change of the default to entry 1. A one-shot
> entry is latched by the 'default' command at boot time, even if the
> 'default' argument is not specified (ie. one-shot overrides a numeric
> argument).
>
> The patch is pretty clean -- it works perfectly against 0.91 as well
> (except the ChangeLog update). The rewritten 'savedefault' may need
> fixing up -- in particular, it will only patch a stage2 file which is
> accessible via a mounted filesystem.
FANTASTIC!!! I can't wait for that to go into the main tree.
That is the one lilo feature I've missed.
--
Paul