Re: making your system robust

[Robert Millan]

On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 02:11:48PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> 
> 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?

Yes, when user has two systems configured in menu.lst (say, A and B), and
per has set to boot A as default. Sometimes per'll want to boot into B just
once, and wants a quick command to do it, no editing of menu.lst.

This is what we implemented in the debian package (grub-reboot), because
many users wanted this feature. It is actualy one of the reasons that
motivated the debian-installer hackers to use GRUB for sarge instead of LILO.

-- 
Robert Millan

"[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the
thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he
gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work."

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