Le Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 08:25:06AM +0100, Sven Luther a écrit : >On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 11:59:22PM +0100, Lucas Moulin wrote: >> Le Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 07:16:03PM +0000, Pedro M. a écrit : >> >I suggest include in Gnome an easy to use finish "fron-end". >> > >> >This would include : >> > >> >- Log out >> >- Shut down ( halt) >> >- Reboot >> >- Reboot with >> >> This has been discussed before, and a patch for GDM was provided (or >> mentioned ?) IIRC. >> >> >Reboot with would explore the default bootloader configuration file ( >> >i.e. lilo. grub ) and would offer to the user elect the OS to load in >> >the re-booting. >> >> I don't think this is such a good idea. How many people would find this >> useful ? Those with Linux as a single OS wouldn't want this, and the >> others with a dual boot can understand having to press an extra key to >> select another entry at boot prompt, I think. > >Well, it is easy done with grub, you only need to modify the default >entry or something such, which can be done with a little sed'ing, and >menu.lst parsing. And even for only linux users, it would be good, >since often you have various kernels installed you want to test or >something. Or different configs or whatever. Yes, I know about that, but still, not everyone's changing kernels all the time, or those who do can also press an extra button ;) >That said, it would be even better if grub would be extended to allow >for a once-only boot option, which would be deleted after the next >reboot or something, not sure if this is easy to do. And naturally, Lilo >would be problematic. I don't know about lilo as I just installed grub and never bothered anymore (thanks to update-grub). Cheers, -- Lucas Moulin <lucas at brebis dot org> "When one makes twenty million, ten thousand people lose" - NOFX
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