From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1CsNwS-0001x8-1s for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 11:16:52 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CsNwP-0001qq-8v for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 11:16:49 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CsNwO-0001pt-1S for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 11:16:48 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CsNqh-0007yg-JQ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 11:10:55 -0500 Received: from [212.43.237.68] (helo=kotoba.storever.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CsN1b-0000s2-3j for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 10:18:07 -0500 Received: from ASSP-nospam (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DDABF8E0421 for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 16:18:05 +0100 (CET) Received: from 127.0.0.1 ([127.0.0.1] helo=localhost) by ASSP-nospam ; 22 Jan 05 15:18:05 -0000 From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" Organization: enbug.org To: The development of GRUB 2 Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 16:18:27 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 References: <873bwt7e8g.fsf@marco.marco-g.com> In-Reply-To: <873bwt7e8g.fsf@marco.marco-g.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200501221618.27972.okuji@enbug.org> Subject: Re: Feature suggestion to grub X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 16:16:50 -0000 On Saturday 22 January 2005 15:03, Marco Gerards wrote: > Aki Tossavainen writes: > > This is something I've been wondering a while, but would it be > > possible to build a "failsafe" system for grub which would work as > > follows: > > > > When grub loads an image and starts it, it'll write into a > > well-known location value (say: 0), which means that the boot has > > not succeeded. Then the booted system could write using a tool into > > the same location a value (say: 1), which means that the boot > > succeeded. If the computer is booted before the value has been > > changed, grub would choose next option or failsafe > > option to boot. > > > > Does this sound like something that could be made? > > Scripting is on the TODO, it is likely that for GRUB 2 such things > will be made possible. I have no idea yet how this will work... GRUB Legacy already has this feature. Okuji