Re: grub and lilo -R

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On 07 Jul 2003 14:47:40 +0200, Eric Doutreleau wrote:

> i ave switched from lilo to grub in order to have a way to protect
> the different menu of my grub file with a password but right now
> i miss a feature of lilo.
> 
> with lilo i could change with the -R option the default label to boot
> only for the next boot.
> 
> does someone how to do that with grub?
> 
> P.S
> when i boot after setting the default label i m under windows then no
> access to rub anymore to change the default label.

There is an undocumented flag, which is mentioned in the GRUB
package changelog. Together with GRUB shell batch mode, you can use
it to simulate lilo -R:

* Fri Mar 08 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx> 0.91-3

[...]
- - add patch from GRUB mailing list from Keir Fraser to add a --once flag to
  savedefault function so that you can have the equivalent of lilo -R 
  functionality (use 'savedefault --default=N --once' from the grub shell)
[...]

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