Lilo, and remote rebooting a system that boots windows by default back to linux

Mon Aug 7 21:01:42 EDT 2000

Hi Brent,

     If you're using Lilo, you can run it with a command to be used the
next time you boot.  As root, type lilo -R linux  assuming the name of
your kernel is linux.  When you reboot, the system will come up as if
linux had been typed at the boot prompt.  The next time you reboot after
that one, the system will behave as before and boot into windoze. <yuck>

          Hope this helps.
          Bill in Denver

On
Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Brent Harding wrote:

> 				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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