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From: Marc van Woerkom <marc.vanwoerkom@science-factory.com>
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Subject: Re: Boot managers.
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> > If you use GRUB you could modify the default line in menu.lst:
> > 
> >     default 0
> 
> True. If you put the GRUB data on a DOS partition, that would allow
> you to build simple scripts to do this from any OS that can mount a
> DOS partition (which means pretty much any OS).
> 
> I've got a really ugly hack(*) for GRUB that makes the active
> partition the default partition, which I use with 'makeactive' to
> cause booting some OS's to make them become the default OS to boot. I

Thanks for proving that I am not the only insane hacker.. :-)

Regards,
Marc


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