[Linux-users] Dual Booting

Jason Jay Rodrigues linux-users at lists.ccs.neu.edu
04 Apr 2002 06:06:58 -0500


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Hey there --

	Someone at the ACM meeting mentioned that you guys were looking for a
cleaner way of allowing the machines to switch from linux to windows,
preferribly from a windows program.

	Have you looked at GRUB ... ?  Grub doesn't have to touch the boot
sector  everytime you need to update the boot configuration. (like
lilo)  In fact, the configuration is read at boot time from a file on a
ext2, fat, reiserfs, etc. filesystem.  You could store the configuration
on a fat partition, and have a program re-write the config file when you
wanted to switch.

	Also, you can password-protect the boot sequence, so you can't start
'linux single' and get a root shell w/o the pw.

Jason

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Jason Jay Rodrigues
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