[ale] alternate boot using GRUB or others?

[Richard Kolkovich]

On 09/19/06 17:26, Jerry Yu blabbered::
> I have a few boot entries in my GRUB. I'd like to be able to specify which
> boot entry to try next, if the entry specified by "default=0" errors out.
> Right now, I was prompted to press a key or 'enter' to get to the GRUB menu
> to manually choose one.  Since GRUB obviously is aware of the error, it's
> conceivablly easy to try second entry (arbitrary entry specified, or from
> top to bottom by default)?
> 

 From 'info grub':

fallback 1

That should make grub boot choice 1 after the default fails (and a 
certain timeout - 30 seconds, says info).  Note that once the kernel has 
control, this will not do anything.

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Richard Kolkovich
sarumont at sigil.org