On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 22:25 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 02:14:45PM -0700, Robert Relyea wrote:
> I like the 2 boot time out options. If you clear the 'successful boot'
> flag every time you start grub (after remembering what it said so you
> can set the appropriate timeout) and set it again whenever the system
> achieves the desirable 'boot state' then grub can detect boot failures
> on the fly and increase the timeout if one is detected.
Yes, the failed boot menu is pretty handy.
> Downside: grub would need write access to a filesystem (or some other
> permanment store) at boot time.
We have this for SaveDefault. It ought to be possible to extend it and
then provide an application that resets the flag at the end of boot.
Yes, as I already observed:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-May/136288.html
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Matt