On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 11:35 -0400, Peter Jones wrote: > Matthew said: > > 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. > > With this in mind, I'm sending the following patch for grub2 upstream. It > implements something analogous to this for UEFI systems. With this, a > change to how we generate grub2 configuration files (just adding a call), > and small amount of userland hacking, we can effectively cause the bootloader > to use a large timeout when the previous boot has failed. Since this is an old thread I forget who's said what, but I'm guessing you know Ubuntu implements something similar for BIOS boots? I don't know if they've submitted it upstream. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
