Re: Idle thoughts or question re: dual booting and grub default !?

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Thanks once again Mikkel;


On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 17:51 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> William Case wrote:
> > Hi;

> If you don't boot Windows often, and you normally want to boot Linux 
> the next time you boot after running Windows, you could try Booting 
> once-only setup in Grub. This is explained in detail in the Grub 
> Info page, so I will not go into setup details. But what it does is 
> tell Grub to boot a specific entry the next time you boot, and as 
> part of the entry, it sets things back to the original default.
> 
> Note - it does not look like Fedora has the grub-set-default script 
> file talked about, but your script could write the 
> /boot/grub/default file. I have not used this under Fedora, but I 
> have done it under Mandriva many times.
> 
> Another option, if you have ext2 support under windows, would be 
> that not have the menu entry reset the default boot, but have a 
> Windows script that changes the /boot/grub/default file.
> 
> In any case, you are going to want to change:
> default=0
> to
> default saved
> 
> Mikkel

I found http://sidvind.com/wiki/GRUB:_Boot_another_OS_once because of
your post.  It seems to have everything I need.  A pointer in the right
direction and a suggestion of some google search key words or criteria
was all it took.

Thanks

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Regards Bill;
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Evo.2.22.3.1, Emacs 22.2.1

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