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From: | Brett Russ |
Subject: | Re: After 3 reboots boot alternative system ? |
Date: | Wed, 10 Sep 2003 00:38:17 -0400 |
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Ulrich Hochholdinger wrote:
I use the Redhat version of GRUB which does have support for this. They patched it to accept a "--once" option to the 'savedefault' command to allow boot once on a menu entry.On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 01:40:13PM +0200, Andreas Jung wrote:I was wondering if any boot manager for Linux has the following option: * Boot an alternative system if n reboots already happend.With Lilo you can boot with "lilo -R command line" which is a once onlyboot of this command line,This feature is, at the moment, missing in grub and I would also like to see this in grub.
I *think* the maintainer of GRUB (and possibly others) consider this a hack, but it works for me.
One way the bootloader/BIOS/OS could communicate would be through CMOS memory (are there any free locations?), but I think you're going to need a watchdog timer to get timeout protection.
BR
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