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? tnx jk
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?
tnx jk
The RESTART option is working as designed. You *cannot* switch to another OS without rebooting.
Bruce Marshall wrote:
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?
tnx jk
The RESTART option is working as designed. You *cannot* switch to another OS without rebooting.
I realize that. I thought the idea was that you could make the selection before rebooting, instead of at boot up. I find I often reboot, and then miss the chance to make the selection, because I'm busy with something else.
On Friday 20 May 2005 12:54, James Knott wrote:
Bruce Marshall wrote:
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?
tnx jk
The RESTART option is working as designed. You *cannot* switch to another OS without rebooting.
I realize that. I thought the idea was that you could make the selection before rebooting, instead of at boot up.
No, you can't.
I find I often reboot, and then miss the chance to make the selection, because I'm busy with something else.
Grub? Or lilo? Increase/decrease the time (in seconds) that Grub/lilo waits for your input to something more to your liking. -- Christopher Shanahan
Christopher Shanahan wrote:
On Friday 20 May 2005 12:54, James Knott wrote:
I realize that. I thought the idea was that you could make the selection before rebooting, instead of at boot up.
No, you can't.
I find I often reboot, and then miss the chance to make the selection, because I'm busy with something else.
Grub? Or lilo?
Increase/decrease the time (in seconds) that Grub/lilo waits for your input to something more to your liking.
Actually, you can. As Richard Bos mentioned, instead of just clicking on the Restart button (the one that looks like a drop down box), click and hold it. After a couple of seconds, a list of boot options appears. At that point, select the desired option and reboot to it.
On Friday 20 May 2005 12:54 pm, James Knott wrote:
The RESTART option is working as designed. You *cannot* switch to another OS without rebooting.
I realize that. I thought the idea was that you could make the selection before rebooting, instead of at boot up. I find I often reboot, and then miss the chance to make the selection, because I'm busy with something else.
Change your grub preferences to either a long number of seconds (99) or to not boot until you tell it to.
Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Friday 20 May 2005 12:54 pm, James Knott wrote:
The RESTART option is working as designed. You *cannot* switch to another OS without rebooting.
I realize that. I thought the idea was that you could make the selection before rebooting, instead of at boot up. I find I often reboot, and then miss the chance to make the selection, because I'm busy with something else.
Change your grub preferences to either a long number of seconds (99) or to not boot until you tell it to.
It does work as I thought. See the other note from me, or the one from Richard Bos, which describes how it works.
On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 12:54, James Knott wrote:
Bruce Marshall wrote:
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?
tnx jk
The RESTART option is working as designed. You *cannot* switch to another OS without rebooting.
I realize that. I thought the idea was that you could make the selection before rebooting, instead of at boot up. I find I often reboot, and then miss the chance to make the selection, because I'm busy with something else.
On the 9.1 systems that I have, all but one use grub for the boot manager. The sole LILO box has a choice of rebooting to a specific OS, _IF_ you log out of your account and use the log-in menu to reboot the system.
Mike McMullin wrote:
On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 12:54, James Knott wrote:
Bruce Marshall wrote:
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?
tnx jk
The RESTART option is working as designed. You *cannot* switch to another OS without rebooting.
I realize that. I thought the idea was that you could make the selection before rebooting, instead of at boot up. I find I often reboot, and then miss the chance to make the selection, because I'm busy with something else.
On the 9.1 systems that I have, all but one use grub for the boot manager. The sole LILO box has a choice of rebooting to a specific OS, _IF_ you log out of your account and use the log-in menu to reboot the system.
As was discussed earlier, in SuSE 9.3, you can select the boot system, when you log out. Instead of clicking on "Restart Computer", you click and hold the button.
Op vrijdag 20 mei 2005 18:41, schreef James Knott:
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?
It's possible indeed. As I'm not behind a 9.3 box at the moment; the golden tip is to press a bit longer on the .... I think the 'reboot' button in the kde session end window... I case it is not the reboot one, try one of the others ;) -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless
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.
--
Jerry Feldman
Op vrijdag 20 mei 2005 21:07, schreef Jerry Feldman:
As mentioned, there is not an option to do exactly what you want, but you could write a script.
Done, it is hosted on kde-apps ;) http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=12140 -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless
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
Ken Schneider wrote:
On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 15:07 -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
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 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.
What I wanted, was to select the system to boot into, before shutting down. It does work, as I thought it would. Details are in another note.
Jerry Feldman wrote:
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.
Not necessary. It works the way I thought it would.
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?
tnx jk
hi yes you have read correctly, this does work and no configuration is required and yes you can boot into another OS, i have Linux and Windows setup on my system ( boot into Linux first of course ). I think what you are doing with your mouse when you log out is selecting .... Restart Computer with a single left mouse click restarting your computer as you say. What you need to do is select Restart Computer with a left click and hold it down..... until the menu is displayed, then select which OS you want to boot into. I think this is what your getting at, hope this is of some help Regards Mal
malcolm wrote:
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?
tnx jk
hi
yes you have read correctly, this does work and no configuration is required
and yes you can boot into another OS, i have Linux and Windows setup on my system ( boot into Linux first of course ).
I think what you are doing with your mouse when you log out is selecting .... Restart Computer with a single left mouse click
restarting your computer as you say.
What you need to do is select Restart Computer with a left click and hold it down..... until the menu is displayed, then select which OS you want to boot into.
I think this is what your getting at,
hope this is of some help
Regards
Mal
Yes, that's it. Tnx
On Friday 20 May 2005 09:41, 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?
tnx jk
You have to click and hold on the down arrow on the restart button (like konqi's back button, or kmail's reply button). Then your grub menu will popup. -- Mark A. Taff
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