On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 23:58 +0200, Marko Vojinovic 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. > > Now, he has several partitions on the drive, some ntfs, some vfat and > some ext3. Is there a clean way of putting grub.conf on a vfat > partition? Is there a way for Windows to have rw access to ext3 > filesystem (namely, /)? Is there some other way of handling this > without physical access to the machine while it boots? http://www.fs-driver.org/ I've used this in the past with great success. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090423/d22f1f2e/attachment-0005.sig>