Re: remote access to boot loader?

[Matt Hyclak <hyclak math ohiou edu>]

On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 10:38:49AM -0600, Peter Ruprecht enlightened us:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a system that uses GRUB to dual-boot WindowsXP and RHEL 4.  It's
> in a remote location, so when it reboots I don't have console access to
> choose to boot the OS that's not the default.  Does anyone know of a
> clever way to address this problem?
> 
> I'd prefer not to have to do something like KVM-over-IP, but would be
> willing to use a different boot loader if necessary.  VMWare would
> potentially be another way to manage the 2 OSes, but there are some
> technical reasons why I hope to avoid that too.
> 

You can have grub go out the serial port, so depending on your hardware
setup, you could access it that way.

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