Re: GRUB; reboot; next partition selection
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)
The first character in /boot/grub/default is the offset from the first
grub menu selection in /boot/grub/menu.lst. This is the default
boot selection (zero for first, one for second, etc).
You could write a little script or program to change that value after
startup, thus changing the default for next boot.
Be sure you maintain the size of the default file. Grub cares.
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