Re: After 3 reboots boot alternative system ?

[Ulrich Hochholdinger]

On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 01:40:13PM +0200, Andreas Jung wrote:

> I was wondering if any boot manager for Linux has the following option:
>* Boot an alternative system if n reboots already happend.

With Lilo you can boot with "lilo -R command line" which is a once only
boot of this command line, if you reboot the box again, the old (as
mentioned in your lilo.conf) entry is booted (with your example this
mans n=1). This feature is really great for testing kernels on boxes 
where you have no physical access.
This feature is, at the moment, missing in grub and I would also like to
see this in grub.

Gruss
        Ulli

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