On Mon, 11.03.13 22:14, Till Maas (opensource@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: > On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 09:09:46PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > > We are working on this in the systemd context. We will provide a tiny > > mechanism, similar to localed/timedated/hostnamed that can be used by > > desktop UIs to choose "boot into firmware", and "boot into other OS" > > features, which can then be exposed on the shutdown button in the UI, or > > in some configuration applet thingy or wherever the desktop UI wants to > > put it. > > Would the systemd feature also allow to for example boot the default > kernel but allow to display a menu in parallel that can be used to boot > a different kernel by reconfiguring the boot loader and initiating a > reboot? Then it is possible to get both, nearly zero boot delay and a > boot menu. The machanism will certainly not "reconfigure" the boot loader. It will pass additional information tot he boot loader or BIOS via EFI vars or so, where that's available, but certainly not muck with the boot loader. Whatever the mechanism does, you can always override everything from the boot menu, just by pressing shift or whatever is necessary. The systemd mechanism only gives the BIOS/boot loader *hints* that it would be cool to do something on next reboot, like for example enter the firmware setup, or boot into a specific OS, but the user should always be empowered to do whatever he wants to do if the machine reboots. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
