Quoting Capt Beany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Following a failed kernel upgrade of a remote linux > box im looking for a replacement to my current boot > loader (GRUB) that will fall back to a previous kernel > if the new one is corrupt and was wondering if filo > could fit the bill (either as is or with some changes) > ? > > The system in question has software raided disk for > redunancy but this doesnt help when the boot kernel is > corrupt. > > What I hope to achieve is that once the boot loader is > running, it will scan the systems boot devices for > files containing boot information (the files would > either be text files with a known extension or binary > files with a magic number) that contain the > kernel/ramdisk filenames, the kernel/ramdisk > checksums, a boot priority and the checksum of the > file itself. > > It should then be possible to select the highest > priority kernel/ramdisk to boot, checksum it and if > this checksum fails fall back to the next > kernel/ramdisk pair. > > Does this sound like a reasonable approach to the > problem ? > > > Have you checked out the nuni bootloader?
http://freshmeat.net/projects/nuni/ It is a bios independent bootloader that has fallback boot methods. I am not sure what this has to do with LinuxBIOS?? But hey it is open source, and again bios independent, possible payload?? Thanks - Joe -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
