Re: [MiNT] Idea for boot sequence

[Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>]

On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:49:32 , Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 14:40 +0200, Peter Slegg wrote:
> > On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:32:40 , Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 14:25 +0200, Peter Slegg wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:18:40 , Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 13:19 +0200, Peter Slegg wrote:
> > > > > > I admit that sometimes I have partially broken my boot set-up
> > > > > > by booting a kernel that is looking for 1-17-cur when that folder
> > > > > > didn't exist or the correct km had been put in 1-17-0 by mistake.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Would it be possible to allow the user to select the possible boot
> > > > > > folder at the mint.ini menu ?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > eg If I am booting a 1-xx-yy kernel then the mint.ini menu would show
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 1-16-3
> > > > > > 1-17-0
> > > > > > 1-17-1
> > > > > > 1-17-CUR
> > > > > >
> > > > > > and then allow me to pick one to boot from.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > This would make it a bit easier to recover in such siutations.
> > > > > > The mint.ini file might have to be moved to c:\AUTO
> > > > >
> > > > > Not really as that could break because of incompatible modules anyway.
> > > > >
> > > > > Alan.
> > > >
> > > > It "could" break but is that not better than being locked out of XaAES ?
> > >
> > > This is where a bootmanager should give you the choice of different
> > > kernels really. Something like SuperBoot or XBoot.
> > >
> >
> > I use XBoot but having lots of kernels (with 8+3 names) that have to be
> > in the right order in AUTO seems like a messy solution when the kernel
> > could open any folder the user chooses.
>
> How many kernels do you have ???
>
> I only have 1 stable and 1 development.
>
> Alan.

I have 2, a current one and 1.15.12 as a get-out-of-jail card.

Potentially I could have a stable one, trunk, Helmut and 1.15.12
messy.

Peter