remote control of dual boot

Mostafa Z. Afgani mostafa.afgani at world.iu-bremen.de
Thu Nov 11 15:33:06 UTC 2004


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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
|
I'd be interested in a reply too as I'm on the same boat ;). The only
method that comes to my mind is to setup the dualboot handling through
the boot.ini of windows but that's a whole lot more complicated than
GRUB is.

Looking forward to replies,
- -M
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