[SOLVED] Booting Windows from a desktop shortcut

Question

I'm looking for a script or method that changes the default menu entry for the bootloader and reboots the system, but when I reboot (or shutdown) from Windows, Arch Linux becomes the default entry.
Maybe what I'm looking for is a way to save the previous selection as the default. Is this possible?
Last edited by DSpider (2012-04-23 09:50:23)

Answer 1

Ah, now I remember. GRUB Legacy. It's been so long since I last used it... About 3 years I think. It was great. It did what it was meant to do, and did it well. I use Syslinux now.
Here's something interesting:
http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/Doc/extlinux
5. EXTLINUX now has "boot-once" support. The boot-once information is stored in an on-disk datastructure, part of extlinux.sys, called the "Auxillary Data Vector". The Auxilliary Data Vector is also available to COMBOOT/COM32 modules that want to store small amounts of information.
To set the boot-once information, do:
extlinux --once 'command' /boot/extlinux
where 'command' is any command you could enter at the SYSLINUX command line. It will be executed on the next boot and then erased.
I should probably reboot, press Tab at the "Windows XP" entry and jot it down on a piece of paper or something (on my phone, most likely).
Last edited by DSpider (2012-04-23 09:52:22)