On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Frans v.d. Klip <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I am setting up a home server with a D510MO board (Atom 510, 1 GB ram, 2x > 1.5TB hd sata, 4 GB internal USB flash disk for OS, on-board Intel video) > using Ubuntu Server 10.04 in a small case. The system will have no keyboard, > no display. > Once operational, most system settings will be made using a web-bases > management tool (probably eBox). > > For troubleshooting or maintenance (disk backup) I would like to boot a > second OS (like System RescueCD, PartedMagic, Xubuntu) from a reserved > partition on one of the hard disks, but without keyboard/display there is no > way to either make a selection from the grub boot menu or the bios boot disk > selection. > > Is there a way in grub (v1.98) to choose from the menu using a hardware > switch (or data file)? > > I can wire up something to the RS232 or parallel port. > The normal boot disk (with Ubuntu Server) will be on the dedicated, internal > USB flash disk connector and I doubt the USB boot order in the bios can be > set to boot (a grub bootable stick) from one of the other USB ports (the > flash disk has not yet arrived). > > Thanks. > .-- > > Met vriendelijke groeten / kind regards, > > Frans van der Klip > > > _______________________________________________ > Help-grub mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub >
The simplest solution is probably to use the utility "grub-reboot" or "grub-set-default". To use either utility you will need to set GRUB_DEFAULT=saved in /etc/default/grub. -- Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net) _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
