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List:       grub-bug
Subject:    RE: question(feature request..?)
From:       Uwe Heinz Rudi Dippel <Udippel () uniten ! edu ! my>
Date:       2004-05-23 16:32:48
Message-ID: 7F599241B0BED411A8240006295520CD01DE5080 () LIB-EXCH-02
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-----Original Message-----
From: Sorin Serban
Subject: Re: question(feature request..?)

well, i seemed to have phrased that wrong, i was veru tired to. hte
previous reply seems to be more or less what i meant. the boot on panic
option is a kernel option, that u can append (panic=[timeout_in_seconds]
) . for what u were talking about, there are utilityes like watchdogs
(dun really know if they can do _all_ u want there, though). it is
really not the bootloaders job to watch for what happens to the system
after it booted (i.e. the kernel is loaded and it has taken control..)

Thanks for clarification. At least you saved me a lot of time trying to
understand the inner workings of lilo (respectively to know that there is
none for this purpose; and lilo works as I had expected).

No, it is not really the bootloader's job to do that. But if it did, why
not. It will, in my setup, however be the bootloader's job to retrieve some
info from the system about its successes and failures, for consecutive
boots.

(sorry for a braindead OWA and its likewise quoting)

Uwe



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