On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 12:09:21PM +0000, Keir Fraser wrote: > The following is patch to grub-0.90 which provides one-shot setting of > the default boot entry. If the 'savedentry' field in the stage2 file > has a ONCEONLY flag set, the entry is reset to zero at boot time. > > The 'savedefault' function has been rewritten for the GRUB shell, do > that you can do something like: > # savedefault --default=1 --once > This specifies a one-shot change of the default to entry 1. A one-shot > entry is latched by the 'default' command at boot time, even if the > 'default' argument is not specified (ie. one-shot overrides a numeric > argument). > > The patch is pretty clean -- it works perfectly against 0.91 as well > (except the ChangeLog update). The rewritten 'savedefault' may need > fixing up -- in particular, it will only patch a stage2 file which is > accessible via a mounted filesystem.
FANTASTIC!!! I can't wait for that to go into the main tree. That is the one lilo feature I've missed. -- Paul _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
