Re: making your system robust

[Robert Millan]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 10:20:45AM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> 
> I'm afraid that you mistake it. GRUB itself does recover the status by 
> savedefault. It's good enough. The reason why I said that it would be 
> better to restore the original menu.lst was that the user might be 
> surprised if menu.lst is modified implicitly.
> 
> And, overkill? Hmm, it's a personal taste. For me, having a new feature 
> only for boot only-once is overkill. Maintaining boot loader code is a 
> pain. Script programming is really easy and efficient. So I prefer to 
> have scripts rather than to make GRUB itself more complex.

Uhm.. I understand. Ok I'll play a bit with your script and see what I can
do. Thanks!

-- 
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."

 -- J.R.R.T., Ainulindale (Silmarillion)