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Hello together,
I want to setup some button in ICEWM, which would reboot the computer to another operating system
(using syslinux)
Is that possible? Where can I find some documentation, which would help me to do that?
thank you
Uwe
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You can make a script that change default syslinux OS in syslinux.cfg.
DEFAULT your_OS
You can execute that script with ICEWM from toolbar launcher.
But this is really unnecessary becasue you can select OS in syslinux menu at boot.
Doc:you can find all at arch wiki
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Syslinux
https://wiki.archlinxu.org/index.php/IceWM
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You don't change the syslinux config. You should use the syslinux binary (.exe on Windows) to set --once or --menu-save. (man syslinux) For the latter see the section menu save in /usr/share/doc/syslinux/menu.txt
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@thegala,
changing the syslinux.cfg is quit a nice idea, it works fine in the one direction, but currently I cannot access my linux partition from windows system so the way back is not possible
@progandy
sudo syslinux --once arch /dev/sdasudo syslinux --once arch /dev/sda
gives the following error message:
> At least one specified option not yet implemented for this installer.
Have you got an idea
syslinux --version
> syslinux 4.07 Copyright 1994-2013 H. Peter Anvin et al
by the way: many thanks for the feedback!
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Arch installs extlinux by default (if you used syslinux-install_update), so this should work:
sudo extlinux --once arch /boot/syslinux
Edit: If you want to modify this setting from windows, you'll have to do take those bits of code from extlinux and make a windows executable. Then mount your boot partition with ext2fsd and have fun.
Last edited by progandy (2013-08-28 21:59:35)
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many many thanx!!! works perfect, now I have got a button to reboot2win
best regards
Uwe
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