Re: ITO: LILO
Simon Law wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 11:09:14PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Scott Dier wrote:
> > > Does GRUB support something like the lilo
> > > on-next-boot-only-boot-this-option (-R ?) feature yet? IE: boot into
> > > windows, but when windows reboots, boot into the default. (linux)
> > >
> > > Without this, getting rid of LILO will be hard.
> >
> > I don't think it can, but it should be simple to adapt the existing
> > savedefault command to save something other than the selected menu item
> > as the default for the next boot.
>
> The easiest way is to edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst file to say
> something different under the "default 0" entry. Say, change the 0 to a
> 1. Since GRUB reads its menu file every boot, it is functionally
> equivalent.
>
> Actually, more flexible, come to think of it. You can do a lot
> of restart-hackery with SysV scripts and sed. Yikes!
Good luck sedding your menu.lst file as windows boots.
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