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bug #557: Rotating default boot? Possible feature

Submitted by:  None
Submitted on:  Fri 07 Jun 2002 12:18:19 AM UTC  
 
Category: ConfigurationSeverity: Major
Priority: 5 - NormalItem Group: Feature Request
Status: FixedPrivacy: Public
Assigned to: NoneOriginator Name: 
Originator Email: -unavailable-Open/Closed: Closed
Release: unknownRelease: None
Reproducibility: NonePlanned Release: None

Mon 21 Jun 2004 11:45:20 AM UTC, comment #5:

This is done in the trunk of the CVS.

Yoshinori K. Okuji <okuji>
Project Administrator
Tue 01 Oct 2002 12:07:57 PM UTC, comment #4:

I'll second this patch. Much easier than having a forest of grub configuration files like I proposed below, and can be used to solve a number of interesting things including kind of emulation of the lilo -R option as requested in Bug #1241

Regards
Henrik

Henrik Nordstrom <hno>
Wed 11 Sep 2002 04:07:45 PM UTC, comment #3:

You should be able to do this with a two stage menu system and using the savedefault option, without any changes to the existing GRUB code

Create three grub config files, making up a two levels directory structure

-- grub.conf ---
default saved
hiddenmenu
timeout=0
title Alternative 1
configfile (hd0,0)/boot/grub/alt1.conf
title Alternative 2
configfile (hd0,0)/boot/grub/alt2.conf

--- alt1.conf ---
default 2
timeout=10
title Alternative 2
configfile (hd0,0)/boot/grub/alt1.conf
title Alternative 1
kernel ...
savedefault

--- alt2.conf ---
default 2
timeout=10
title Alternative 1
kernel ...
savedefault
title Alternative 2
configfile (hd0,0)/boot/grub/alt2.conf

Regards
Henrik

Henrik Nordstrom <hno>
Sun 16 Jun 2002 10:08:29 PM UTC, comment #2:

--- stage2/builtins.c.ORIG Sun Jun 16 21:10:05 2002
+++ stage2/builtins.c Sun Jun 16 23:50:24 2002
@@ -3197,7 +3197,8 @@
#if !defined(SUPPORT_DISKLESS) && !defined(GRUB_UTIL)
char buffer[512];
int *entryno_ptr;
-
+ int entryno = 0;
+
/* This command is only useful when you boot an entry from the menu
interface. */
if (! (flags & BUILTIN_SCRIPT))
@@ -3205,6 +3206,12 @@
errnum = ERR_UNRECOGNIZED;
return 1;
}
+
+ /* Get entryno, if specified. Otherwise the current */
+ if (! safe_parse_maxint (&arg, &entryno))
+ {
+ entryno = current_entryno;
+ }

/* Get the geometry of the boot drive (i.e. the disk which contains
this stage2). */
@@ -3231,10 +3238,10 @@
entryno_ptr = (int *) (buffer + STAGE2_SAVED_ENTRYNO);

/* Check if the saved entry number differs from current entry number. */
- if (*entryno_ptr != current_entryno)
+ if (*entryno_ptr != entryno)
{
/* Overwrite the saved entry number. */
- *entryno_ptr = current_entryno;
+ *entryno_ptr = entryno;

/* Save the image in the disk. */
if (! rawwrite (boot_drive, install_second_sector, buffer))
@@ -3256,8 +3263,9 @@
"savedefault",
savedefault_func,
BUILTIN_CMDLINE,
- "savedefault",
- "Save the current entry as the default boot entry."
+ "savedefault [NUM]",
+ "Save the current entry or the entry number NUM "
+ "as the default boot entry."
};

Anonymous
Sun 16 Jun 2002 10:05:57 PM UTC, comment #1:

Can test with this little patch ? It realize the shiva suggestion.

Anonymous
Fri 07 Jun 2002 12:18:19 AM UTC, original submission:

As operating systems are becoming extremely stable these days (even in the MS world), the only times I actually reboot my computer are to switch to that /other/ operating system. When I reboot again, it's to get back into my nice Linux environment.

While I do have Linux as default, would it ever be possible to have GRUB rotate the default boot between 2 or more partitions? Then, by default, it would boot into a different operating system from what you just restarted in.

Is this a feature that other people would like to see?

Anonymous

 

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Date Changed By Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced By
Mon 21 Jun 2004 11:45:20 AM UTCokujiStatusNone=>Fixed
  Open/ClosedOpen=>Closed
  Release=>unknown
  Planned Release=>0.96

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