lilo vs grub
Chris Ricker
kaboom at gatech.edu
Sun Oct 26 12:28:45 UTC 2003
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Thomas Dodd wrote:
>
>
> Chris Ricker wrote:
> > grub has that feature, it's just poorly documented and complicated to use
> >
> > grub> savedefault --default=# --once
> >
> > makes # the default for the next boot only
>
> Ok Chris (or Jeremy).
>
> I have linux, Win98(for my son's games), and memtest86 entried in
> grub.con and lilo.conf
>
> With lilo, if I want to boot win98:
> # lilo -R win98; reboot
>
> To check memory:
> # lilo -R memtest;shutdown
>
> How do I do these with grub?
Assuming a grub.conf with three stanzas:
title linux
...
title win98
...
title memtest
...
you'd do something like
# grub
(probes for a bit, then displays a prompt)
grub>
(at this prompt, enter the command)
grub> savedefault --default=2 --once
grub> quit
Here, the first stanza (linux, in my example) is 0 (--default=0), the second
is 1, the third is 2, so the above command should make memtest the default
next time only
There's also a --batch option to the grub command which will let you
automate it a bit....
later,
chris
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