On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 11:40:28AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Matthew Garrett <mj...@srcf.ucam.org> wrote: > > The solution to "My kernel update doesn't boot" should be "Automatically > > detect that that happened, give the user that information and fall back > > to the old kernel", not "Always show the user a menu that they almost > > always don't care about". Solve the actual problem. > > Agreed. Having a simple one-shot boot facility would be awesome. If anyone > has ideas on how to accomplish this, please let me know. I'd be willing to > look at implementing this.
Add a byte to the grub config block (wherever setdefault gets written) indicating whether a boot was clean or not. Have grub set clear that at kernel load, and then have a userspace app that sets it at the completion of boot. Check whether it's set or not on next boot and use that to run a different config stanza. In theory I think you could do something with the BIOS simple boot flag, but that could get confusing in a dual boot scenario. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
