Am Freitag, den 01.01.2010, 23:05 +0300 schrieb Mihamina Rakotomandimby: > Manao ahoana, Hello, Bonjour, > > How to reproduce the "revert" LILO feature with GRUB2? > > I believe everyone here knows what it is, but a quick explanation for > those not knowing: > With LILO, I can setup a default image to boot on. > But, I also can setup the next entry to boot on, that may be different > to the default one. > After that first following boot, the default entry will be used. > > What usage? > It is usefull for me when testing a kernel on a remote > server. I set the default to a reliable boot image. I set the "revert" > to the testing one. I boot: it boots on the "revert" one. > If it ever doesnt boot, I initiate a hard reboot (electric cutoff) and > then it boots on the safe one. > > I play with LILO just for that feature, I would like to switch to > GRUB. > > Misaotra, Thanks, Merci.
Experimental branch has grub-reboot to boot an entry only once for the next reboot. But unfortunately this currently due to a bug just defaults to grub-set-default, i.e. always boot that entry then. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
