Gowtham: I waited before giving this answer, to let the real Windows Gurus answer first. Tims pronouncement is as good is it gets, so here is my hair-brained idea. Perhaps it would actually work.
As much as I hate to admit this on a Windows mailing list ... When I have multi-boot things to accomplish, I install a copy of Linux and use GRUB to do the fancy boot stuff. If you want to modify the boot control file from Windows, try: 1) Install Ubuntu in a small (10MB) dedicated partition. (The Ubuntu installer will modify the partition table for you, slide the NTFS as needed and install GRUB for multi-boot.) Use the manual partitioning option to make sure you are using an ext3 (not ext4) file system for '/'. 2) Download and install on your Windows system the ext2 file system package from sourceforge. 3) Mount your '/' partition, go to /boot/grub 4) make a handy Python script to edit /boot/grub/grub.cfg to do the boot you need. -- Vernon On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Gowtham <narisipa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I want to try something similar to what Mac has i.e control the startup > from the OS. In Mac you can choose to have the next boot to be a network > boot or a CD boot or a Firewire boot. Similarly, is there a way in windows > using WMI/wbem scripting we can set the next boot in network boot or CD mode > instead of local hard disk. > > Any pointers, appreciate it. > > Thanks, > Gowtham N > > _______________________________________________ > python-win32 mailing list > python-win32@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 > >
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