GRUB overrides file?

[Robert Millan]

CCing bug-grub

On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 09:25:55PM -0500, Scott Dier wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-08-04 at 18:08, Simon Law wrote:
> Does GRUB support something like the lilo
> on-next-boot-only-boot-this-option (-R ?) feature yet?  IE: boot into
> windows, but when windows reboots, boot into the default. (linux)
> 
> Without this, getting rid of LILO will be hard.
> 

How about using a temporary overrides file that has precedence over
/boot/grub/menu.lst? That could be /var/tmp/grub.overrides for
example.

So menu.lst could be processed first and then commands like "default",
"timeout" or even "title" sets could be overriden by grub.overrides. this
has the flexibility that you can toggle the overrides file from other
OSes, too.

and a "grub -R" like option that generates an overrides file can be
implemented later.

-- 
Robert Millan

"5 years from now everyone will be running
free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5"

              Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 30 Jan 1992