Feature changed by: James McDaniel (jdmcdaniel3) Feature #310380, revision 3 Title: grub2 bootonce or bootnext command openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Lee Matheson (oldcpu) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: <!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> With the possibility of Grub2 being implemented soon as a default boot manager, it would be useful to add to the Grub2 packaging a small script that fully emulates the older grubonce that is provided with openSUSE-11.3 and earlier.  The philosophy is from run level 3, or from a desktop that does not support the capability to selectively reboot ONCE (and only ONCE) into another boot partition, one can run a command that allows this one time reboot functionality.  This was achieved with the "grubonce" command on openSUSE-11.3 (and earlier) and other distributions (for the older grub version) used perl scripts such as bootnext (on Fedora: http://www.dcheng.members.sonic.net/friends/jspaar/pub/bootnext/ ). There is an example here on openSUSE forums as to the utility of the grubonce command and how it can be applied: http://forums.opensuse.org/english/information-new-users/unreviewed-how-faq/... The grub2-reboot command is lacking (in comparison to grubonce) in that it appears it can not be used to generate the re-boot selection menu.  Hence I propose a small script/application be provided with openSUSE-11.4 (or 12.0) that functions similar to the scripts proposed in http://forums.opensuse.org/english/information-new-users/unreviewed-how-faq/... or as a minium functions with the full capability of the "grubonce" (which grub2-reboot lacks). + Discussion: + #1: James McDaniel (jdmcdaniel3) (2012-05-09 03:27:59) + With the advent of openSUSE 12.2 and its inclusion of grub 2, this will + be a needed option. I have used this in the following bash script for + grub legacy: http://forums.opensuse.org/blogs/jdmcdaniel3/p-b-s-partition-boot-selector-v... + You can set the default boot for the next restart using grub2-set- + default, but it does not remove the menu display or change the default + timer on restart & you must actually restart your PC. If the default + selection time could be made to be zero along with existing ability to + select the next default session, this thing might be doable. + Thank You, -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310380