remote control of dual boot

[Yang Xiao]

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:33:06 +0100, Mostafa Z. Afgani
<mostafa.afgani at world.iu-bremen.de> wrote:
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> Stewart Nelson wrote:
> | Hi,
> 
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> |
> | I have a conventional dual-boot system:
> | Win XP on IDE primary master, grub in MBR,
> | FC2 on primary slave.
> |
> | If either Windows or FC2 is running, I can
> | access it with VNC.  Of course, a reboot will
> | switch to the default OS, if the other is running.
> | However, I don't know how to switch back.
> |
> | Is there a good way to boot FC2 from Windows?
> | Or to boot Windows from FC2?
> |
> | If not, is there an easy way to edit grub.conf
> | from Windows, so I could change the default to
> | Fedora and then reboot?
> |
> | Thanks,
> |
> | Stewart
> |
> I'd be interested in a reply too as I'm on the same boat ;). The only
> method that comes to my mind is to setup the dualboot handling through
> the boot.ini of windows but that's a whole lot more complicated than
> GRUB is.
> 
> Looking forward to replies,
> - -M
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You will need to setup serial console so you can select which OS to
boot into at the grub menu.

Yang