bugGNU GRUB - Bugs: bug #1241, lilo-like -R switch

 
 

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bug #1241: lilo-like -R switch

Submitter:  Invalid User ID <#10789>
Submitted:  Wed 18 Sep 2002 08:33:34 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  User Interface Severity:  Major
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Feature Request
Status:  Fixed Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Originator Name: 
Open/Closed:  Closed Release:  None
Release:  unknown Reproducibility:  None
Planned Release:  None

Mon 21 Jun 2004 11:54:35 AM UTC, comment #4: 

This is done in the trunk of the CVS.

 Yoshinori K. Okuji <okuji>
Group administrator
Tue 01 Oct 2002 02:38:04 PM UTC, comment #3: 

A patch was submitted with this functionality back in February  -- see http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-grub/2002-February/006701.html

 Invalid User ID <#7699>
Tue 01 Oct 2002 12:19:13 PM UTC, comment #2: 

See also Bug #557 on the savedefault command.

 Henrik Nordstrom <hno>
Tue 01 Oct 2002 12:02:54 PM UTC, comment #1: 

I'll second this, and propose it to be implemented as a temporary version of "savedefault".

savenextdefault <entrynr>

savenextdefault saves the default entry to be used for the next boot only. The boot after that will go back to the normal default entry.

Problme is that this needs the embedded data in stage2 to be extended with one more byte if to be done in a easy manner.


Another alternative would be to extend "savedefault" with an optional argument telling which entry to boot. This way one can easily make a grub script that switches to another boot entry, and have this boot entry switch the default back to the normal entry by executing a "savedefault normal-entry-number" command.

Regards
Henrik

 Henrik Nordstrom <hno>
Wed 18 Sep 2002 08:33:34 PM UTC, original submission:  

--- QUOTE FROM lilo(8) man page ---
       -R command line
              This  option sets the default command for the boot loader the next time it executes. The boot loader will then erase this
              line: this is a once-only command. It is typically used in reboot scripts, just before calling `shutdown -r'.  Used with-
              out any arguments, it will cancel a lock-ed or fallback command line.
--- END OF QUOTE ---

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