Re: remote access to boot loader?

[John Summerfield <debian herakles homelinux org>]

Micah Yoder wrote:
> > 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?
>
>
> LILO can do that.  You can use
> # lilo -r xp
> or whatever (might be a capital R), and then your XP partition label.  Next 
> time you reboot, you'll get XP.  Following time, Linux.

Probably using the standard Win BMR, and installing grub in hda[1-3] as 
appropriate will work.

You need to make the appropriate partition "active" as that's how the 
MBR discovers what to boot.




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