From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.ufw2.com([216.163.21.20]) (1839 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 14:05:17 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from hardb ([216.163.21.59]) by mail.ufw2.com (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA01042 for ; Mon, 07 Aug 2000 13:05:52 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20000807131122.007adeb0@mail.ufw2.com> X-Sender: bharding@mail.ufw2.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 13:11:22 -0500 To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca From: Brent Harding Subject: Lilo, and remote rebooting a system that boots windows by default back to linux In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" List-Id: 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?