Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)

2008-02-10 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 10 February 2008 02:28:40 Daniel Barkalow wrote: *This .sig left intentionally blank* Alternatively: this sentence no verb. -- Rgds Peter -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)

2008-02-09 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 2/8/08, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I sometimes forget that some people actually use XP as an alternate OS (for me it's just there in case I forget how bored with games I am) Well, other than games, Windows can at times prove a useful companion. What's good about it is that after a

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)

2008-02-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 09 February 2008 04:35:35 Daniel Barkalow wrote: *This .sig left intentionally blank* It did? Where did it leave for? -- Rgds Peter -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)

2008-02-09 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday 09 February 2008 04:35:35 Daniel Barkalow wrote: *This .sig left intentionally blank* It did? Where did it leave for? That reminds me of the pages in the IBM service manuals. They would put that on the blank pages. My questions was always

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)

2008-02-09 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 04:46:48 -0600 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday 09 February 2008 04:35:35 Daniel Barkalow wrote: *This .sig left intentionally blank* It did? Where did it leave for? That reminds me of the pages in the IBM service

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)

2008-02-09 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Dale wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday 09 February 2008 04:35:35 Daniel Barkalow wrote: *This .sig left intentionally blank* It did? Where did it leave for? That reminds me of the pages in the IBM service manuals. They would put that

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)

2008-02-09 Thread Dale
Daniel Barkalow wrote: On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Dale wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday 09 February 2008 04:35:35 Daniel Barkalow wrote: *This .sig left intentionally blank* It did? Where did it leave for? That reminds me of the pages in the IBM

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)

2008-02-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 08 February 2008, Dale wrote: Dan Farrell wrote: You should join me then. All I have is Linux. I have NEVER bought a M$ product, ever. I built this rig and put Linux on it. I have never looked back either. What is this Microsoft of which you speak? I have never heard of such a

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)

2008-02-08 Thread Dale
Dan Farrell wrote: On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 13:34:07 + Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought the point of the question was to avoid waiting for the GRUB menu to appear. I sometimes forget that some people actually use XP as an alternate OS (for me it's just there in case

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)

2008-02-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 13:14:02 -0600, Dan Farrell wrote: I sometimes forget that some people actually use XP as an alternate OS XP is a valid alternate OS... to Vista :) -- Neil Bothwick Bother, said Pooh, as Smurfette got dressed. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)

2008-02-08 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 13:34:07 + Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought the point of the question was to avoid waiting for the GRUB menu to appear. I sometimes forget that some people actually use XP as an alternate OS (for me it's just there in case I forget how bored with games I

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)

2008-02-08 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 08 February 2008, Dale wrote: Dan Farrell wrote: You should join me then. All I have is Linux. I have NEVER bought a M$ product, ever. I built this rig and put Linux on it. I have never looked back either. What is this Microsoft

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)

2008-02-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 09:20:47 -0600, Dan Farrell wrote: I was thinking, though; wouldn't it be possible to just switch back and forth each boot? Have grub set windows as the default when it boots linux and linux as the default after booting windows, That would make installing new drivers in

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)

2008-02-05 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Neil Bothwick wrote: | That would make installing new drivers in Windows even more of a pain, | doubling the number of reboots needed :( Not really, you can always change the default option by using the cursor keys in the grub boot menu. - --

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)

2008-02-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:27:28 -0200, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: | That would make installing new drivers in Windows even more of a pain, | doubling the number of reboots needed :( Not really, you can always change the default option by using the cursor keys in the grub boot menu. I

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)

2008-02-04 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
On Sunday 03 Feb 2008 20:50:47 Dan Farrell wrote: On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 23:44:59 +0100 Liviu Andronic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks all for their respective input. From the information provided, I've assembled a short Gentoo Wiki Tip [1]. Regards, Liviu [1]

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)

2008-02-03 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 23:44:59 +0100 Liviu Andronic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks all for their respective input. From the information provided, I've assembled a short Gentoo Wiki Tip [1]. Regards, Liviu [1] http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Reboot_to_Windows_(using_grub) Thanks; I've been

[gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)

2008-02-02 Thread Liviu Andronic
Dear Gentoo Community, I was wondering if anyone knew how (whether) it is possible to set temporary options to grub. I am on a dual-boot setup with Gentoo Linux being the first choice in grub's config file. When I perform a restart, most of the times it is in order to subsequently boot Windows.

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)

2008-02-02 Thread Stroller
On 2 Feb 2008, at 12:57, Liviu Andronic wrote: ... With the current setup, however, I need to press the restart button (in Xfce), wait patiently till the computer restarts, wait for the grub screen and change the option before the 5 seconds time-out expires. I find annoying when I miss out the

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)

2008-02-02 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
On Saturday 02 Feb 2008 18:27:55 Liviu Andronic wrote: Basically, I would like to issue a command (restart with a certain grub temporary setup change), go make myself a cup of tee and come back and see the Windows login screen. info grub Look for grub-set-default. What I've done is to add

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)

2008-02-02 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Saturday 2 February 2008, Stroller wrote: One answer to this is to change the default entry in /boot/grub/ grub.conf If you don't want to do this manually using $editor each time you want to start Windows then you could surely write a script which would do so. In order to change

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)

2008-02-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Liviu Andronic writes: I was wondering if anyone knew how (whether) it is possible to set temporary options to grub. [...] Basically, I would like to issue a command (restart with a certain grub temporary setup change), go make myself a cup of tee and come back and see the Windows login

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)

2008-02-02 Thread Liviu Andronic
Thanks all for their respective input. From the information provided, I've assembled a short Gentoo Wiki Tip [1]. Regards, Liviu [1] http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Reboot_to_Windows_(using_grub) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list