Re: Grub Scripting

2009-05-08 Thread Chris Umphress
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Colin D Bennett wrote: > Chris Umphress wrote on Friday 08 May 2009: >> We'll overwrite the boot loader and restore the partition table if it >> was destroyed. That would be handled from a custom, bootable live-CD >> or thumbdrive. This is going to be used on laptop

Re: Grub Scripting

2009-05-08 Thread Colin D Bennett
Chris Umphress wrote on Friday 08 May 2009: > We'll overwrite the boot loader and restore the partition table if it > was destroyed. That would be handled from a custom, bootable live-CD > or thumbdrive. This is going to be used on laptops that are lent out > and it is one more way that we can try

Re: Grub Scripting

2009-05-08 Thread Chris Umphress
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Isaac Dupree wrote: > I can think of a couple ways to do what you say: > > - if there is a date/time command in GRUB, have the `grub.cfg` check the date > and refuse to offer any booting options after that date (where I suppose the > hardware-clock supplies that dat

Re: Grub Scripting

2009-05-08 Thread Javier Martín
El vie, 08-05-2009 a las 13:16 +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko escribió: > > > On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Chris Umphress > wrote: > Hey, > > We have some computers that need a boot loader to > self-destruct at the > end of a school year. In orde

Re: Grub Scripting

2009-05-08 Thread Isaac Dupree
Chris Umphress wrote: > Hey, > > We have some computers that need a boot loader to self-destruct at the > end of a school year. In order to accomplish this we would like to use > Grub scripting. From what I have been able to find, the support is > incomplete and we would have to write the code to s

Re: Grub Scripting

2009-05-08 Thread Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Chris Umphress wrote: > Hey, > > We have some computers that need a boot loader to self-destruct at the > end of a school year. In order to accomplish this we would like to use > Grub scripting. From what I have been able to find, the support is > incomplete and we