Hi, I have been wondering how suse did this. So how would I add that to kde's shutdown option to allow me to select the OS to boot into when shutting down (i.e. so I can reboot into windows without catching the grub menu but keep my default boot option as linux) Anton Joey Hess wrote: > 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) > > > Run grub-reboot [n] where n is the number of the menu item in menu.lst > that grub should default to for the next boot only. > > This requires a newer version of grub than the one in stable. > savedefault --once should be working with grub 0.97-6 and up. > -- email: anton@piatek.co.uk home: 02088 702 664 mobile: 07900 951 627 work: 01962 816 557 blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [0xB307BAEF] (http://tastycake.net/~anton/anton.asc) fingerprint: 116A 5F01 1E5F 1ADE 78C6 EDB3 B9B6 E622 B307 BAEF
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