On 05/18/2010 12:18 PM, Jon Masters wrote:
On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 12:11 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Jon Masters (jonathan(a)jonmasters.org) said:
>>> If we put a bit more trust into our kernel updates, and can start making
>>> people a bit angry and filing bugs when there are regressions, maybe we
>>> can do away with that crappy crutch.
>>
>> User anger really isn't a good motivator.
>
> If you're really concerned about needing the timeouts when 'normal'
bootup
> doesn't work, then why not write a patch that simply checks the time since
> last bootup (via mtime on grub.conf, or wahtever), and shows the menu if it's
> less than some predefined interval (say, 3 minutes?)
That's actually a good idea. Doesn't help with my desire to have a grub
timeout available always, but it's a reasonably neat solution and it
does at least mean we get a timeout if we're likely not booting. I like
it Bill, thanks for the suggestion.
I'd be interested in taking a patch to implement something like this, fwiw.
--
Peter
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