Re: making your system robust

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

On Friday 25 June 2004 17:05, Robert Millan wrote:
> My fault, I missed some context. The Debian version of GRUB includes
> one of those patches that added support for --once by embedding a
> once_only bit in stage files. Based on this, I wrote a "grub-reboot"
> script that mimics "lilo -R" functionality.
>
> Since setting up GRUB to boot a particular option once, then fallback
> to default requires editing menu.lst, grub-reboot can't now be
> implemented gracefuly.
>
> I think some sort of interface like that in /boot/grub/default would
> be quite adequate. It could also allow for testing a list of kernels
> untill default is reached.

I still don't see your problem. If the user wants to test a new kernel, 
she needs to modify menu.lst anyway, unless she boots it up on the 
command-line interface. Then, what is bad with modifying menu.lst? Do I 
miss anything?

Okuji