From: Marco Gerards <metgerards@student.han.nl>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Feature suggestion to grub
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 14:03:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <873bwt7e8g.fsf@marco.marco-g.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0501121144040.9263@youzen.ext.b2.fi> (Aki Tossavainen's message of "Wed, 12 Jan 2005 11:44:24 +0200 (EET)")
Aki Tossavainen <cmouse@desteem.org> 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...
--
Marco
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-22 14:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-12 9:44 Feature suggestion to grub Aki Tossavainen
2005-01-22 14:03 ` Marco Gerards [this message]
2005-01-22 15:18 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-01-22 16:19 ` Aki Tossavainen
2005-01-22 17:35 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-01-29 13:18 ` Bash pre-alpha Serbinenko Vladimir
2005-01-29 14:08 ` Serbinenko Vladimir
2005-01-29 16:04 ` Marco Gerards
2005-01-29 18:03 ` Serbinenko Vladimir
2005-01-31 5:59 ` Serbinenko Vladimir
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