Grub feature request?

[John Summerfield]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>> Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>>> Is it possible to have the Grub gui (when it comes up)
>>> to "remember" the last boot item chosen instead of
>>> simply choosing the default?
>>>
>>> I wonder if this would be a neat feature?
>>>
>> One way to do it would be to add the "savedefault" at the end of
>> each menu entry. (Or only the entries you want to be remembered.)
>>
>>           title GNU/Linux
>>           root (hd0,0)
>>           kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1
>>           initrd /boot/initrd
>>           savedefault
>>
> 
> It would be even nicer if it could keep track of attempts and successes, 
> so that after a couple of attempts without success (i.e. an update 
> installed a new kernel as the default but it fails to boot), it could 
> drop back to an entry that had been successful previously.  That could 
> help in headless situations or where the machine is remote and the best 
> you can do is get someone else to punch the reset button.
> 
1. read the docs. Be aware though that "boot" means "load the kernel." I 
don't see that it can help with crashing kernels.

2. Take a look at grub2.


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