Re: [MiNT] Idea for boot sequence

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>]

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.

Alan.