On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 09:09:46PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
We are working on this in the systemd context. We will provide a
tiny
mechanism, similar to localed/timedated/hostnamed that can be used by
desktop UIs to choose "boot into firmware", and "boot into other OS"
features, which can then be exposed on the shutdown button in the UI, or
in some configuration applet thingy or wherever the desktop UI wants to
put it.
Would the systemd feature also allow to for example boot the default
kernel but allow to display a menu in parallel that can be used to boot
a different kernel by reconfiguring the boot loader and initiating a
reboot? Then it is possible to get both, nearly zero boot delay and a
boot menu.
Regards
Till