Rebooting in the desired partition

Paul Smith phhs80 at gmail.com
Sat Sep 3 10:22:36 UTC 2005


On 8/31/05, Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I wrote a script for Fedora called bootnext, which is apparently similar
> > > to rebootin.  It'll show a menu of boot choices to reboot into without
> > > changing your grub default.
> > >
> > > Description and rpm here:
> > ...
> >
> > Whoops - gmane auto-munged that URL for me.  Here's the correct link:
> >
> > http://www.geocities.com/jspaar@sbcglobal.net/pub/bootnext/index.html
> 
> Thanks, Jack. I have just tried your script and it was not successful:
> it reboots in Fedora again, instead of rebooting in Mandriva. Maybe,
> this is caused by the fact I have lilo as bootloader running on the
> Mandriva partition. Any ideas?

Now that I have switched to grub as my bootloader, your script works
just fine. Thanks, Jack, for having written that very useful script.

Paul




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