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

Hi;

As I think about it ...

On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 13:10 -0400, William Case wrote:
Hi;

I have a dual boot system WindowsXP on /dev/sda; Fedora on /dev/sdb.

Some days I find myself switching between the two quite often. I can
also go weeks with no need of Windows.

I am not sure if what I propose is possible, but ...

I would like to create a script in Fedora, and a .bat in Windows that
changes the default in grub when selected. I would have a desktop
launcher in both systems to be used for restarting. The alogarithm
would be something like what follows:

1. set grub default to other OS
2. restart

Since re-booting takes a bit of time (particularly in WindowsXP), I
could simply click my 'restart in other OS' icon and walk away for a
fresh coffee or to make a phone call without having to catch the grub
selection screen. The normal shutdown and restart would remain the
same.

Setting up a virtual machine is a solution but for much later for me.

I am looking for pointers or suggestions; tips and tricks; on how these
scripts and batch files might be written; or even if they are possible
at all.

I will take on the actual writing of them as a personal challenge.

No .bat file is necessary if there is some way to write a script that
selects Windows while I am in Fedora, yet retains the default Fedora
boot when in Windows. Is there a way to set up a flag + an if statement
or something in the grub.config file and yet retains the usual default
configuration if I am not using my restart script?

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Regards Bill;
Fedora 9, Gnome 2.22.3
Evo.2.22.3.1, Emacs 22.2.1

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