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Paul Howarth wrote: | Jacques Dimanche wrote: | |> Stewart Nelson wrote: |> |>> 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? |> |> |> Here is how I would do it. I would make my linux be the default OS to |> boot into. You mentioned that you can control both OS'es remotely so |> this shouldn't be a problem. If you are in windows, then you can just |> reboot to boot into linux. While in linux, you can reboot into |> windows by executing the following commands: |> |> enter grub with: |> grub --no-floppy (don't probe floppy drives makes it go faster if |> you do not have a drive like all my machines) |> in the grub command line: |> savedefault --default=2 --once (replace 2 with the appropriate |> selection that is your windows option in grub.conf) |> quit |> Then you can reboot and it will boot into Windows. When you reboot |> again, it will go back into Linux. | | | The way I do it is to have the XP bootloader in the MBR, and have it | chain-load grub to boot Linux. The first partition on the first disk is | a small FAT partition that contains XP's boot.ini file. By manipulating | this file (which, since it's on a filesystem that can be both read and | written from both XP and Linux, can be done from either OS), I can | choose which OS to boot by default and hence, what will get booted if I | just reboot. | | The key to this is having a bootloader configuration file on a | filesystem that can be written by all OSes in use. In my case I'm OK | because I have a FAT partition at the start of the disk, because I | partitioned the disk with this in mind. An alternative approach might be | to use ext2fsd (http://ext2fsd.sourceforge.net/), an ext2 filesystem | driver for Windows, which could allow you to modify grub.conf from Windows. | | Paul. | Hello Paul,
I haven't checked, but I thought ext2fsd didn't allow you to write to ext3 volumes.
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