Does anyone know if there is a way to tell a computer to boot up into windows the nex

pofadda · 07-26-2005, 03:52 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by abisko00
If you are using this method, the default will not be changed. You won't even get a grub menu during reboot and go directly into the choosen system. On next (regular) reboot, you will get your default grub menu and system.

Rats! After your help and my hope I discovered that my desktop is 3.3.2 not 3.4

My Mepis' Synaptic shows no sign of 3.4 KDE... or am I missing something?

springshades · 07-26-2005, 05:04 PM

Quote:

Rats! After your help and my hope I discovered that my desktop is 3.3.2 not 3.4

My Mepis' Synaptic shows no sign of 3.4 KDE... or am I missing something?

Well, not many distros have made it to 3.4 yet, and I wouldn't recommend changing distros just to update that. You have the option of either waiting for an update or you could try looking around the internet and finding more debian package repositories to see if any have the update already. I use mepis on my other computer, and the repositories used by default aren't all that extensive. I looked around and added a few and went from a few thousand available packages to about 17,000+ I believe.

pofadda · 07-26-2005, 05:14 PM

No change of distro for a single cute feature!

I enthusiastically added repositories to my sources.list a few weeks ago. Synaptic now takes an age to update (it finds 74) and dumps half of them ('non-us' seems to be the problem).

Do these repositories vary a lot in their content, quality and up-to-dateness? If so would you recommend/condemn any re my list?

Yours interestedly,

abisko00 · 07-27-2005, 04:38 AM

I found what this feature is doing: before reboot, it runs the grub command

Code:

grub> savedefault --default=3 --once

I think a simple script should be able to do this as well.