On Monday 28 June 2004 13:37, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > On Saturday 26 June 2004 22:57, Robert Millan wrote: > > Yes, when user has two systems configured in menu.lst (say, A and > > B), and per has set to boot A as default. Sometimes per'll want > > to boot into B just once, and wants a quick command to do it, no > > editing of menu.lst. > > I don't know what A and B are in reality, but is your concern only > whether it is one command or not? Why do you hesitate to modify > menu.lst by your script?
Well, assume A is an old kernel and B is a new (freshly installed) one, and the system is a dedicated root server, located at some provider, thus no physical access. Now, when rebooting, you will want to boot once into B, and if that fails, automatically fall back to A (hopefully, the system isn't frozen on boot, or at least some remote reset means exist..) See, you will want to boot B once, and if things went right, make B the default, but if things go mad, you won't have a chance to intervene: in this case, most likely the provider will restore some default image, and you have to start __all__ over again... :-( OTOH, people want grub on such systems, since it removes at least _one_ point of failure, compared to lilo. I'm sure, I don't need to sell you this one ;-) Pete _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
