On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 22:25 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 02:14:45PM -0700, Robert Relyea wrote: > > I like the 2 boot time out options. If you clear the 'successful boot' > > flag every time you start grub (after remembering what it said so you > > can set the appropriate timeout) and set it again whenever the system > > achieves the desirable 'boot state' then grub can detect boot failures > > on the fly and increase the timeout if one is detected. > > Yes, the failed boot menu is pretty handy. > > > Downside: grub would need write access to a filesystem (or some other > > permanment store) at boot time. > > We have this for SaveDefault. It ought to be possible to extend it and > then provide an application that resets the flag at the end of boot. Yes, as I already observed: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-May/136288.html -- Matt -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel