Re: [TCLUG:6074] Better LILO switch wanted

[Yaron <jethro@yaron.org>]

  Hi,

On Tue, 18 May 1999, Fred H. Olson wrote:

> There's got to be a better way.
> 
> Either a toggle switch theat LILO reads somehow or keys typed at the
> beginning of the boot that are stored till LILO needs them or some clever
> action that LILO can detect.  Any ideas?  

Well, you can have two seperate lilo.conf's with each different OS as the
default, and have a couple of shutdown scripts (or one with commandline
options):

#!/bin/sh

case "$1" in
linux)
  echo "Making Linux the default..."
  lilo -C /etc/lilo.conf.linux
  init 6
;;

doze)
  echo "You better be doing this for a good cause..."
  lilo -C /etc/lilo.conf.doze
  init 6
;;
*) 
  echo "Usage: $0 [Insert OS here]"
  exit 1
esac

exit 0


-YMMV... call it myboot, chmod 755 it and put it in /sbin or something...


-Yaron

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