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James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> I think this would be a good feature, because if nothing else, I
> permits the user to "uninstall grub" if they so wish.

I would disagree with the use case described, but agree that having the
ability to roll back to the previous boot record could possibly be of
value.

-Lars