headless dual boot
Jason DeVita
yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Thu Apr 15 11:31:01 2004
A friend wants to install YDL on a mac. It has no monitor, it's basically
used as a server. So the question is, how would she choose which OS to
boot (since she would be rebooting remotely)? One idea I came up with, is
to write a script that modifies yaboot.conf, runs ybin, then reboots.
That works fine for changing from linux to OSX; but then she's stuck --
there's no way to get back. Another idea is to set the timeout in yaboot
to something long, and attach a keyboard to the machine. Then she could
just hit 'l' or 'x' after a sufficiently long time. That's kind of
unsatisfactory, though.
Anyone know a way to do this?
Thanks,
J