On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 07:09:41AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, > I would like to limit OS selection at boot time. The machine has > Gentoo and Windows. Gentoo *must* be the booted OS unless a password > is entered. I have tried the password feature in grub but it does not > implement this feature. It implements changing boot time kernel > options, but not OS choice as far as I can tell. > > I also tried adding the hiddenmenu option in grub but it seems that > with hiddenmenu turned on grub never accepts a password. > > Is there a way to implement what I need? If you can provide an > example that would be great. > > NOTE: I currently do this be editing the grub file itself but I'm > looking for something more sophisticated since I'd like my wife to be > able to boot Windows but not my son. > > Thanks all, > Mark
Mark, Unless I'm reading your needs wrong, I think you need the "lock" command as well as the "password" command. http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#password http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#lock HTH, festus -- Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.
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