dual OS boot selection

[Jack Spaar]

On Fri, 20 May 2005 08:23:36 +0100, Kai Zhang wrote:

> Is there a way to select which OS to boot remotely? MBR provides you an
> option at the very beginning when you power on your box. But I will only
> have access to my PC via VNC or telnet,ssh soon.
> 
> Thanks for the help.

This thread over at LQ might be helpful.  It shows how to change your
default grub choice for *the next reboot only*.

So if you boot into linux by default, you can always run a script that
will tell grub to boot Windows (or any non-default kernel) for the
next boot.

[There's a script I wrote, and another poster refers to an earlier
command-line only script.  Or you can just see how it works and run grub
at a command line.]

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=145115

--Jack