On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 04:59:34PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote: > 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 oops - forgot one http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Security -- Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.
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