> Stewart Nelson wrote: > > Hi, > > > > 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 > > > No idea if this will work, but how about making your /boot partition > FAT, then you can edit your grub.conf from either os and select the > default before rebooting. > yeah, that's a good idea i've been thinking about too! during my last installation i hesitated a bit to go for it but why should /boot be necessarily a linux partition after all? On Itanium EFI is booted from FAT and it works alright.
