Re: reboot to specific OS from GNU/Linux

[Ciaran O'Riordan]

On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 06:05:45PM +0000, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 05:52:27PM +0100, Ciaran O'Riordan wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >   While running GNU/Linux, is there a way to reboot the machine
> > so that grub selects an entry other than the default without
> > presenting a menu?
> > 
> > I'm told LiLO can do this (LiLO -R)
> > 
> > i.e. if I'm dual booting, can I reboot to a non-GNU OS just once?
> 
> Actualy, this is a requisite for GRUB to become the default bootloader
> in Debian, so it'd be of much help to have this functionality.
> 
> Would you implement it? It can be done by having GRUB parse an overrides
> file such as /boot/grub/overrides.lst whose commands can overrid the ones
> in menu.lst. Then a function like "grub -R" can be implemented on top of
> that.

ok, I'll take it.  Nicholas Wourms sent me a detailed mail offlist about
getting and using the SuSE patch.  I have some FSF work to do for a
deadline this week so I will take a quick look now and hopefully get
it done next week.  I'll mail the list next week when I've read the SuSE
code, it's shouldn't be too much work so I'll probably recode the solution
since I have already assigned copyright for any Grub work I do to FSF.

Thanks.
Ciaran O'Riordan