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From: "Victor Tsaran" <vtsaran@nimbus.ocis.temple.edu>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Lilo, and remote rebooting a system that boots windows by  default back to linux
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 22:28:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000301c0010f$1d5dd600$0200a8c0@wang> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20000807131122.007adeb0@mail.ufw2.com>

Bill, that was a very nice tip.
Thanks a lot for it,
Vic

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brent Harding" <bharding@mail.ufw2.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 11:11 AM
Subject: Lilo, and remote rebooting a system that boots windows by default
back to linux


> How do I make it, so if I connect to my system from somewhere else,
> (probably will some day when I get dsl to use it to connect to the
> Internet) How can I reboot the system such that it won't reboot to
windows,
> and reboot to linux instead. Is there a reboot command that will tell lilo
> what to boot next time the system reboots? I have no tool in windows to
> connect to my system, (that's for NT and costs lots) so telneting in to a
> windows system isn't feasible. I have debian 2.2 on the system, on one
> large partition, as I figured with 256 megs of ram swap wasn't needed,
> although one could make a swap file if needed. I have lilo on the mbr, and
> it boots windows immediately if I don't hold shift while it's booting
> (everyone else in my family uses windows, and don't know about how lilo
> works). Is the password keyword the best to use for this, so I could dial
> in and enter a password so I'm the only one who can control what the
system
> boots to?
>
>
>
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 New List Member Bruce Pfeiffer
 ` William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123
 ` speakupl
 ` Joseph Norton
   ` Lilo, and remote rebooting a system that boots windows by default back to linux Brent Harding
     ` William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123
     ` Victor Tsaran [this message]
       ` Brent Harding
         ` Tommy Moore
           ` Brent Harding
           ` Brent Harding

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