On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 11:57:47PM -0500, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote:
Hi,
I have installed stable release of debian (using the netinst CD) on a
headless machine (no kb, mouse or monitor) . The machine also does not
have a floppy drive. I like to make a bood cd of the installed kernel so
that I can bypass the grub boot. Specifically the grub setup boots win
XP by default and I need to have something that can boot linux on
demand. (Note that without KB and monitor I am blind to grub
interaction an cannot ask it to boot the non default selection which is
linux)
Why would you install two operating systems on a machine where you
cannot choose the OS at boot time?
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Nothing will dispel enthusiasm like a small admission fee.
-- Kim Hubbard
This is my HTPC and going to sit next to my stereo system (it has a HD
tuner card and all the intersting win MCE like stuff). However, it will
be the backup firewall should my main firewall linux machine fail. Thus
I want the linux side to exist and upto date. The upto date part
requires periodic boot into linux and I do not want to physically move
the machine each time next to a monitor keyboard and go through all the
connectivity just to do that. Also each time I upgrade windows I want a
quick way of booting into installed linux and just do "grub-install" to
restore the mutiboot. If you have a better suggestion, let me know.
Most important of all, I have been saved several time by this type of
floppy whenever I screw up my lilo run or want to swap /dev/hda when
linux is in /dev/hdb.
Regards
Ramesh
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