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On Saturday 2 February 2008, Stroller wrote: |
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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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There is the "savedefault" command, which can be used to boot an OS only |
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once while keeping the original OS as default, thus booting the original |
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OS the next time. It's explained in the grub info file. |
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So, I suppose the OP could write a wrapper script to /sbin/shutdown which |
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does a grub-set-default to boot windows once. |
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