Re: headless system, multiple default boot entry

[Support Teddy]

On 4/17/2011 21:43, Jordan Uggla wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 7:22 AM, Support Teddy<address@hidden>  wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > i have an headless server on which i need to boot windows too (i can control
> > that via vnc, or even cygwin and ssh)
> >
> > problem is i need at every reboot to automatically select different default
> > boot entry, that means i boot server it default boots windows, i reboot it
> > then it boots linux, i reboot it again, it boots windows and so on
> >
> > with lilo i could do that using fallback option, on grub, the default boot
> > entry only change to fallback if the default one fails ... and that's not
> > the case here
> >
> > can you please help me ?
> The grub-reboot utility may do what you want, and if not it should be
> fairly simple to get what you want using grub's scripting capabilities
> (grub 1.98 and up. grub legacy, 0.97, is no longer supported if that
> is what you are using). Are you writing your grub.cfg manually or
> using update-grub/grub-mkconfig?
thank you for answer, i don't really know grub atm, i'm gonna learn it 
... some time ^^

i did solved the problem by changing active partition in linux and 
windows and using grub in boot of linux partition and not in mbr of hdd

again, thank you :)