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On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 07:09:41AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I would like to limit OS selection at boot time. The machine has |
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> Gentoo and Windows. Gentoo *must* be the booted OS unless a password |
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> is entered. I have tried the password feature in grub but it does not |
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> implement this feature. It implements changing boot time kernel |
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> options, but not OS choice as far as I can tell. |
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> I also tried adding the hiddenmenu option in grub but it seems that |
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> with hiddenmenu turned on grub never accepts a password. |
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> Is there a way to implement what I need? If you can provide an |
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> example that would be great. |
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> NOTE: I currently do this be editing the grub file itself but I'm |
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> looking for something more sophisticated since I'd like my wife to be |
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> able to boot Windows but not my son. |
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> Thanks all, |
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> Mark |
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Mark, |
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Unless I'm reading your needs wrong, I think you need the "lock" command |
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as well as the "password" command. |
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http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#password |
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http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#lock |
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HTH, |
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festus |
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