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On 2 Feb 2008, at 12:57, Liviu Andronic wrote: |
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> ... |
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> With the current setup, |
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> however, I need to press the restart button (in Xfce), wait patiently |
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> till the computer restarts, wait for the grub screen and change the |
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> option before the 5 seconds time-out expires. I find annoying when I |
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> miss out the time-out, because of my going away from the computer |
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> screen. |
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> |
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> Basically, I would like to issue a command (restart with a certain |
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> grub temporary setup change), go make myself a cup of tee and come |
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> back and see the Windows login screen. |
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One answer to this is to change the "default" entry in /boot/grub/ |
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grub.conf |
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If you don't want to do this manually using $editor each time you |
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want to start Windows then you could surely write a script which |
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would do so. In order to change /boot/grub/grub.conf from Windows you |
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would need to install an ext3-write driver for 'doze or format your / |
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boot partition FAT32. |
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Surely one could easily write a script which would change the |
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"default" entry in /boot/grub/grub.conf. In order to change it back |
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one would probably need to have it also write a /boot/grub/ |
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my.next.boot.txt file, too, and have start-up scripts under each o/s |
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to recognise that & once again edit /boot/grub/grub.conf. I do not |
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think such a facility is built-in to grub. |
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Stroller. |
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