Re: Grub, default boot question.

From: Nathan (gangrif_at_mindless.com)
Date: 09/02/05 

Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 16:55:57 -0400

Andy Fraser wrote:
> Sybren Stuvel <sybrenUSE@YOURthirdtower.com.imagination> wrote:
>
>
>>>Is there a way to tell grub to boot an OS other than the default for
>>>just one boot, and then go back to the usual default on the next
>>>boot?
>>
>>I don't know if it can. This is one of the reasons I use LILO.
>
>
> GRUB can do it. Back in my Debian days there was a command grub-reboot
> that did exactly what the OP wanted but I've only seen it on Debian.
> IIRC it was a shell script that just passed some commands to GRUB.
>
> I've just downloaded and unpacked Debian's GRUB package from Sarge.
> grub-reboot is indeed a shell script. The line that appears to do the
> magic is:
>
> savedefault --once --default=$default
> (run from within GRUB. See below)
>
> The whole code block is:
>
> default="$1" ; shift
> grub --batch $@ <<EOT
> savedefault --once --default=$default
> quit
> EOT
>
> The rest of the script is just checking that you're root, the usage info
> and a prompt to reboot now (you can run the script to set the temporary
> default without rebooting).
>
This is exactly what i want to accomplish. You're right, my Fedora core
3 install does not include the grub-reboot script. And i understand how
this command should be executed. But i'm not 100% sure what should be
entered in place of the $default variable. I;d assume that in that place
would be somethign that represents my Windows boot selection.. but i
cant quite decide what.
Thanks. 

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