GRUB 2

[Tom H]

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 4:41 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 2 March 2011 08:56, Loïc Grenié <loic.grenie at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> The problem is that one every three boots must be on XP the two
>> others on Linux. The idea is that you can remotely reboot the
>> machine and after at most three attempts you get XP.
>
> Is the *real* problem that you would like to decide remotely which OS
> to boot into next?
>
> It is easy enough when in Ubuntu to decide that you wish to boot into
> XP next by editing /etc/default/grub and running sudo update-grub.
> This could be done via a script so that manual edit is not required
> each time.
>
> The problem arises when in XP and you wish to boot into Ubuntu.

If you only want to reboot into XP once, you can use
"GRUB_DEFAULT=saved" in "/etc/default/grub" and "grub-reboot
<xp_entry_in_grub.cfg>".