Grub entry to boot next bootable device

Hi everyone,
It's not really a newbie question, but I didn't found a better place to post.
I would like to add an entry to my grub menu.lst that will just search for the next bootable device (CDROM, USB or Floppy) and boot it.
So I would always boot on my hdd, and when I hit this option, boot for exemple my usb debian live if it is plugged, or a bootable cd.
Is it possible?
Last edited by k2000 (2010-10-24 16:30:40)

Try:
title Arch Linux by UUID (sda5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/857136db-0356-46bd-9fff-0126b575218b
initrd /boot/initramfs-linux.img
You may need the root   (hd0,4) line as well.  I think that is required to tell Grub where to find it's intermediate files.  It would go in front of the kernel line.
Edit:  I assume, of course, that your UUID is correct   You might check that.
Last edited by ewaller (2011-10-11 03:16:48)

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