Re: in difference time, can automatic change the default boot item?

[Bean]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 5:58 PM, adrian15 <address@hidden> wrote:
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>  Bean escribió:
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> > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 5:39 PM, wolfman.wu <address@hidden> wrote:
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> > > my computer have linux & xp, I want to set:
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> > > 1.  daytime, the default boot item is   XP
> > > 2.  night,   the default boot item auto change to LINUX
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> > > the grub have this feature?
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> > No, grub doesn't have this feature, but some time ago, i write a patch
> > for grub4dos that implement a similar feature.It add a new command
> > checktime to test the current daytime:
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> > checktime * * * * *
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> > The five parameters for checktime is the same as in crontab:minute,
> > hour, day, month and day of week. this command check if the current
> > daytime is within the range specified by the parameters, and return
> > true or false accordingly. Combined this with the script support for
> > grub2, you can perform some operation in a selected time range.
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> > It's relative easy to port this to grub2, anyone interested ?
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>  I am interested for adding it to Super Grub Disk, it might be a good
> feature to release a hard disk version of Super Grub Disk.
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>  Can you please send me the patch to see if it is easy for me to add the
> code to SGD or not?
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>  Thank you.

Hi,

This is the patch for grub4dos, it'd be trivial to integrate it with
GRUB Legacy. However, command checktime returns a boolean value, you
need some sort conditional statement to make it useful, in grub4dos,
you can use &&:

checktime * * * * * && default 0

But GRUB Legacy doesn't support this, so you need to think of some
other way to make it work, like embed the command in checktime itself.

-- 
Bean

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