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hsz

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Registered: 2009-09-25

Posts: 30

[SOLVED] Reboot into specified mode with syslinux

I have standard syslinux entries:

LABEL arch
    MENU LABEL Arch Linux
    LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux
    APPEND root=/dev/sda2 rw vga=864
    INITRD ../initramfs-linux.img

LABEL windows
    MENU LABEL Windows
    COM32 chain.c32
    APPEND hd0 3

And set default to:

DEFAULT arch

Is it possible from Linux to reboot into windows just one time without select menu ? For example, something like:

reboot --label=windows

Last edited by hsz (2014-01-19 19:52:27)

x33a

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Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 4,587

Re: [SOLVED] Reboot into specified mode with syslinux

You can only do something similar, and that too with grub2 only AFAIK.

Last edited by x33a (2014-01-19 14:52:43)

djgera

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From: Buenos Aires - Argentina

Registered: 2008-12-24

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Re: [SOLVED] Reboot into specified mode with syslinux

Use --once= option of syslinux/extlinux

hsz

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Registered: 2009-09-25

Posts: 30

Re: [SOLVED] Reboot into specified mode with syslinux

@djgera Thanks !

Solution:

sudo extlinux -o windows /boot/syslinux/ && sudo reboot

x33a

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Re: [SOLVED] Reboot into specified mode with syslinux

@ djgera

Nice, I didn't know this feature existed in syslinux.