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Re: GRUB; reboot; next partition selection



On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 09:48:59PM -0500, Adam J. Hogan wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 21:10 -0400, Ice wrote:
> > Hey, I'm curious if there is a way to easily select the next partition
> > (for when Debian comes back up) during a reboot.
> > I know that this was a feature of KDE back when I was using SuSE.
> > 
> > I checked the man pages of Shutdown, reboot, halt, etc. and came up
> > with nothing so far.  I have also googled for a bit... 
> > 
> > Anyone know a way to use "# reboot" and specify the next bootup
> > partition? (/dev/hdb1 instead of /dev/hda1)
> 
> There are two versions of Grub NextBoot on KDE-Look.org.  Check them
> out.  States that it requires kdesu it's not available; sudo works fine.

How does it do it?  Rewriting the boot sector?

-- hendrik



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