[U-Boot] Can I have a backup boot option ?

Our current system works fine (booting from flash or nfs), but I'd also like to add a "recovery" feature.
If an end-user inserts an MMC card containing some "magic marker" files, the target will detect these and boot from the MMC card instead of using the standard boot option.
For portability, I guess I could use the Hush option and construct some big if..else..fi statement to check for the MMC card files and boot accordingly. Is this a simple-ish task ?
An easier, but less portable, way would be to hard-code the checks in the startup code before the standard boot process.
I've done a quick check of the README and the source code, but nothing else seems to stand out as a possible solution.
Anyone got any ideas ?
Thanks Mark

Dear Mark,
In message 492AA134.7010008@mimc.co.uk you wrote:
If an end-user inserts an MMC card containing some "magic marker" files, the target will detect these and boot from the MMC card instead of using the standard boot option.
...
I've done a quick check of the README and the source code, but nothing else seems to stand out as a possible solution.
Note: please restrict your line lenght to some 70 or so characters.
There are several auto-update / recovery solutions available in current source code. Just look around - search for file names that contain auto_update or fwupdate, and/or read doc/README.update
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk

Wolfgang Denk wrote:
Dear Mark,
In message 492AA134.7010008@mimc.co.uk you wrote:
If an end-user inserts an MMC card containing some "magic marker" ...
...
I've done a quick check of the README and the source code, but ...
Note: please restrict your line lenght to some 70 or so characters.
Hmmm ... I'm sure I'd already done that ... Thunderbird must have reset itself ??
There are several auto-update / recovery solutions available in current source code. Just look around - search for file names that contain auto_update or fwupdate, and/or read doc/README.update
Ah, excellent. Thanks for the pointers.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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