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.
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