Arch Willingham wrote: > I have a machine that I need to be able to dual boot between XP > and FC7. It dual boots just fine but I need to be able to work on it > remotely. When it is running FC7, I can remotely set default=1 in > grub.conf, reboot and it is then running XP. The problem is the > other way around, while I can remotely control XP, once I am in XP, > I have no way of getting to grub.conf so that I can then set default=0. > > Does that make sense? > > Thanks! > > Arch > There are utilities that will let you access ext3 file systems from XP, but for what you are after, you may want to take a look at: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=145115 It is a script that lets you do a one-time boot in a different OS, and then boot the default OS on the next boot. You could use it to boot into XP, and then boot back into Linux on the reboot. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
