Hi Marko, On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at gmail.com> wrote: > My friend uses a typical dual-boot setup (Windows XP and Centos 5.3). > The machine is online 24/7 and he often uses it from a remote location > (Linux via ssh -X, Windows via rdesktop). > > The problem is that he wants to be able to remotely configure which of > these two OSes is to be the default on next reboot, so he can switch > from one OS to the other and back remotely. If Linux is up, he just > needs to reconfigure grub.conf, but if Windows is up (and default) he > has no way of accessing grub.conf. Along with other options provided in the list, you can also use this to mount that partition as ext2 within Windows. http://www.fs-driver.org/ See the section about mounting ext3 partitions: http://www.fs-driver.org/faq.html#acc_ext3 -- Hakan (m1fcj) - http://www.hititgunesi.org