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On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Jakob wrote: |
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> I was wondering if there is a way to tell Grub to start another system |
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> than the default for the next reboot? |
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> On lilo there is the command "lilo -R ..." whitch tells lilo to use the |
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> specified system for the next reboot and than switch back to the |
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> default after that. |
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There does not appear to be a quick-and-easy way to get grub to boot an |
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entry in a "one-off" test run as you described. |
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The Grub info page does describe a hack that you can use that will yield |
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the same result. It's in section 4.3.1 ("Booting once-only") of the grub |
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info page, and it can be found at the below URL: |
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http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Booting-once_002donly.html#Booting-once_002donly |
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The trick they describe works like this: |
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Instead of configuring grub to boot the first entry: |
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default 0 |
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You configure grub to boot the "default" entry: |
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default saved |
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... which you can set with the command "grub-set-default". |
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Then, for each of the boot stanzas in grub.conf, you include the |
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"savedefault N" directive, which resets the default boot entry when the |
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selected item is booted. |
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The effect is that the "default" boot entry is reset every time Grub |
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boots something. For one-off cases where you only want to boot something |
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once, you manually set it with "grub-set-default", and rely on the |
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"savedefault N" directive in that one-off stanza to reset the grub |
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default immediately after it's selected. |
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Joe |
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