From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Con2a-0007o4-ET for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 13:16:20 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Con2F-0007kf-0c for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 13:15:59 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Con29-0007hJ-Fc for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 13:15:53 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Con29-0007fF-8q for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 13:15:53 -0500 Received: from [194.67.23.122] (helo=mx2.mail.ru) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ComlR-0007to-K3 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 12:58:37 -0500 Received: from [83.76.221.88] (port=1373 helo=[192.168.1.100]) by mx2.mail.ru with esmtp id 1ComlP-000Nq3-00 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 20:58:35 +0300 Message-ID: <41E56556.7030409@list.ru> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 18:58:46 +0100 From: Serbinenko Vova User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: grub-devel@gnu.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam: Not detected Subject: Re: Grub-devel Digest, Vol 11, Issue 11 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: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 18:16:05 -0000 >Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 11:44:24 +0200 (EET) >From: Aki Tossavainen >Subject: Feature suggestion to grub >To: grub-devel@gnu.org >Message-ID: >Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > >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? > >--------------- >Aki Tossavainen >cmouse@desteem.org > > > Now I'm writing script engine. In beta version(probably as plans are not yet fixed) after I'll write hooks and arrays support. I'll write the savedvars module (variables saved in file) and small C-tool to modify it from OS. You'll be able to use it to do so. Soon(I think Sunday) I'll mail my first(pre-alpha I suppose) version and we'll discuss about priorities for future versions ------------- Vladimir Serbinenko serbinenko.vova@list.ru vovas at irc.gnu.org#grub