On Friday 20 May 2005 12:41 pm, James Knott wrote:
I seem to recall reading, that with SuSE 9.3, you could restart the computer and boot into another OS. Also, when you log out from KDE, the "Restart" option appears as a drop down box, but clicking on it causes the system to shut down for a reboot. Is that where you're supposed to select the other OS? If so, how do you configure it, so that it works? As mentioned, there is not an option to do exactly what you want, but you could write a script. The GRUB file is called menu.lst (or grub.conf) in /boot/grub. You could edit that file on the fly, or create more than one menu.lst. It might look like:
#!/bin/sh cp /boot/grub/menususe92.lst /boot/grub/menu.lst /sbin/shutdown -r now -------------------- I would probably make the script a bit more sophisticated. You could then create a menu for the scripts, and stick it into the start menu. The script would be run as root, but you could use sudo or kdesu. On 9.3 with KDE 3.4 when you click on the logout button it presents a
On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 15:07 -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote: menu of: 1. End Current Session 2. Turn Off Computer 3. Restart Computer (with additional options as listed in menu.lst) 4. Suspend Computer I would think that using option #3 and further selecting which grub menu item I want to boot to could be selected here. Or is this not working as it appears it should? Should this not pre-select which item I wanted to reboot into even if that option was another OS? Maybe this will help clear up the OP's original request. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge