GRUB 2

[Tom H]

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 4:41 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> So the conclusion:
>
> 1. Install tools to allow access to Ubuntu partition from XP
>
> 2. In Ubuntu edit /etc/default/grub so that the default is XP.
>
> 3. Write a windows script that edits /boot/grub/grub.cfg so that the
> next boot will be into Ubuntu.
>
> 4. When running Ubuntu, to set next boot to XP simply run sudo
> update-grub to restore /etc/default/grub to boot into XP

For (3), you can just edit "/boot/grub/grub.cfg" directly if you have
r/w access and don't want to script changing X in "set default=X".

But there are a couple pf problems: (1) AFAIK, you can't access an
ext4 partition from Windows. (2) AFAIK, (should XP be upgraded or for
a future googler) you can't access ext partitions with Win7 except r/o
- until either ext2 ifs or ext2read are developed further...