How can we use grub to make system boot from a particular entry only once?

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Issue

  • How can we use grub to make system boot from a particular entry only once?
  • In some cases, it may require system to boot from a particular grub entry once and boot from the default one next time.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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