Dual Booting -- Choices at the push of a button?

MT_Keg · 07-27-2010, 12:01 AM

I was wondering if it were possible to have a dual boot system (XP and Debian) where when you press, say F7, you will boot into windows or if your press F6 you will boot into Linux. I have a monitor that doesn't support the initial start-up graphics and I thought this would be helpful.

Thanks

MT

Blue_Ice · 07-27-2010, 06:08 AM

Usually, when you have installed WinXP first and after that you install Debian, GRUB will make an entry in its list of choices...
But you can also try a seperate boot manager, although I have no experience with that.

MT_Keg · 07-27-2010, 10:02 AM

Blue_Ice -- That is correct... I will have XP installed and then install Linux such that both options are in GRUB. I guess the question is then can/how can I configure GRUB to wait for a certain key to be pressed to boot up one of the operating systems instead of seeing a list?