Re: this is a strange idea, what do you think..

[Jake Morrison <jake_morrison@example.com>]

Scott,

Another option....

I normally use the NT boot loader to dual boot Linux if the machine
has NT on it. 

The NT boot loader is controled by the C:\boot.ini (hidden) file,
which looks like this:

[boot loader]
timeout=5
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000
Professional"
/fastdetect
C:\bootpart\BOOTLIN5.BIN="Linux"

The BOOTLIN5.BIN file has the first hunk of the Linux boot partition
(i.e., lilo), extracted with "dd if=/dev/hda5 of=bootlin5.bin size=512
count=1".

So... if your Windows program can swap out the boot.ini file with one 
that starts Linux by default, then reboot, you are there.

Jake

--- Scott Stone <SStone@example.com> wrote:
> 
> I just had a thought (run! run for the hills!) ... would it not be
> nice if
> you had a little bitty daemon that runs under *windows* that you
> could
> telnet to and give a command like "reboot linux" and it would modify
> the
> lilo configuration on the mbr such that it would reboot the system
> into
> linux, in case you had a dual boot system and had left it booted into
> windows, but you want it to boot into linux so you can use it
> remotely?
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------
> Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com>
> Senior Technical Consultant - UNIX and Networking
> Taos, the Sysadmin Company - Santa Clara, CA
> 
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