GNU GRUB - Bugs: bug #785, would like to change default for...
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bug #785: would like to change default for only next boot from running system
Submitter: | Jay Berkenbilt <jayberkenbilt> | ||
Submitted: | Mon 01 Jul 2002 03:17:40 PM UTC | ||
Category: | Configuration | Severity: | Major |
Priority: | 5 - Normal | Item Group: | Feature Request |
Status: | Fixed | Privacy: | Public |
Assigned to: | None | Originator Name: | |
Open/Closed: | Closed | Release: | None |
Release: | 0.91 | Reproducibility: | None |
Planned Release: | None |
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Mon 21 Jun 2004 11:51:10 AM UTC, comment #11: |
Yoshinori K. Okuji <okuji> |
Mon 21 Jun 2004 11:51:02 AM UTC, comment #10: This is done in the trunk of the CVS. |
Yoshinori K. Okuji <okuji> |
Wed 11 Feb 2004 01:09:49 PM UTC, comment #9: I just wanted to show my support for this feature. I like GRUB far better than LILO, but at this point I cannot afford to use GRUB on my server (a headless Gentoo machine that lives roughly 100 miles from where I live) because there is no way to reboot into a known good kernel if a test kernel panics. With LILO, I just use lilo -R and reboot, passing panic=30 to the test kernel. If the kernel panics, it reboots after 30 seconds and LILO knows to boot up the default one next time. |
Anonymous |
Sun 08 Feb 2004 01:45:05 AM UTC, comment #8: Just a "me too". I can hardly believe this feature isn't already implemented. |
Anonymous |
Mon 02 Feb 2004 08:28:01 PM UTC, comment #7: I have actually looking for this functionality in Grub lately. I was kind of interested in setting up a file called nextboot that you could list the next default option to boot and pull it out of the file. Then the next one would be queued up. I pulled the source and was looking at it but I am just learning how Grub works.
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Anonymous |
Tue 28 Oct 2003 03:49:37 PM UTC, comment #6: Look at the patch in redhats grub srpm
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Pádraig Brady <pixelbeat> |
Thu 23 Oct 2003 03:52:12 PM UTC, comment #5: I was looking for the same option... lilo -R is quite handy to test a new kernel on a server without a display and keyboard. |
Invalid User ID <#24565> |
Tue 12 Aug 2003 10:25:28 PM UTC, comment #4: An external tool wont be able to reset the default entry number, if the kernel panics. For remote booting of new kernels, there needs to be a 'one-shot' option, or better yet it detects a boot-loop, say more than 3 in 5 minutes and boots a fail-back image. |
Anonymous |
Mon 16 Sep 2002 03:44:36 PM UTC, comment #3: oops -- I made the last comment without logging in. Anyway, the last comment was made by the original poster.... |
Jay Berkenbilt <jayberkenbilt> |
Mon 16 Sep 2002 03:42:58 PM UTC, comment #2: Changing the default entry would be one step, but in order for my suggestion to work, it would have to be changed in such a way that the default would revert back for the next time, even if the system is booted into an operating system from which GRUB can't be configured. It would be sufficient to, in addition to being able to override the next default, to be able to set the default for the next boot in the grub configuration file. (Right now, the only thing you can do is "safedefault".) If I could, for example, say that my next boot it is default to the third entry and to set in my grub configuration item for the third entry that it should restore the default to the first entry, that would do the trick. |
Anonymous |
Wed 11 Sep 2002 04:18:39 PM UTC, comment #1: Writing a tool that changes the default entry should not be too hard.. |
Henrik Nordstrom <hno> |
Mon 01 Jul 2002 03:17:40 PM UTC, original submission:
I have a grub menu with several items on it. I almost always choose the same one. Occasionally, I want to boot from a different item on the next boot, but then want to return to by default for subsequent boots. I would like to be able to override the menu item that will appear as the default on the next boot only and to be able to do this from my running system before rebooting. This is different from using savedefault.
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Jay Berkenbilt <jayberkenbilt> |
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Date | Changed by | Updated Field | Previous Value | => | Replaced by |
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2004-06-21 | okuji | Planned Release | 0. | 0.96 | |
2004-06-21 | okuji | Status | None | Fixed | |
Open/Closed | Open | Closed | |||
Planned Release | 0. |
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This is done in the trunk of the CVS.