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Idea #17888: Restart control of Grub

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #13354: Reboot into... option.
Written by garrowolf74 the 6 Feb 09 at 10:27. Category: System. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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I have a dual boot and I go back and forth between windows and linux. When I restart from one of them I have to sit there and wait for it to reboot and then select the one I want.
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nikgare wrote on the 6 Feb 09 at 15:21
I really like the idea of number 1. I seem to remember seeing something like this in SuSE a couple of years ago.

viraptor wrote on the 6 Feb 09 at 19:48
`grub-reboot` does it. It just lacks an integrated gui.

zerothis wrote on the 6 Feb 09 at 21:24
This is really only useful if the other OS use the same system. A Linux application is fine for Linuxes, But UNIXs, OS X, and Windows would need to use it to.

AndrewC wrote on the 10 Feb 09 at 20:45
It's true that Windows would still lack this feature, but that doesn't make it altogether useless.

hellion0 wrote on the 13 Feb 09 at 07:40
This would be extremely helpful for dual-booters, and there's a lot of us out there. Either something new, or perhaps someone could modify the current shutdown dialogs to integrate grub-reboot's functions?

jarlath wrote on the 2 Mar 09 at 03:23
I wouldn't like to see it as default but definitely as an option.

It's a nice idea for dual booters, grub defaults to an Ubuntu boot anyway so this would mean that booting out of Windows would always bring you to linux after the time-out - and in Ubuntu you would have a choice.


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