Re: Set the menu choice for next reboot without access to conf file?

[Colin D Bennett]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:25:11 -0700
"David Mathog" <address@hidden> wrote:

> We have some systems which are remotely administered and dual boot
> linux and Windows.  Under linux there is access to the grub config
> file, but under Windows there is not.  The default grub menu option
> boots Windows. 
> 
> On linux
> 
>   grub-set-default 1
> 
> will tell grub to use the 2nd menu option (and so boot linux instead
> of Windows)) only for the next boot, so long as the grub config file
> is appropriately configured with "default saved".
> 
> If this command were applied from Windows would "grub-set-default"
> require access to the grub config file, or does grub-set-default just
> store an integer somewhere in the MBR, or elsewhere in the first disk
> track?

Hi David,

Are you using GRUB 2 or GRUB legacy (0.9x)?

Regards,
Colin