Comments on: Create Shortcuts to Quickly Reboot to the Alternate OS in a Vista/XP Dual-Boot

By: SteveB

SteveB — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:05:26 +0000

The reboot to Vista64 from XP32 Pro will not work. Anyone know how to achieve this?

By: Bjorn

Bjorn — Mon, 04 May 2009 16:32:34 +0000

Neither methods worked as supposed, I was a bit disappointed (sorry for this) …

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:51:52 +0000

I am currently having two problems with the shortcut from XP to Vista. (By the way, everything else worked great! The only site that helped me on achieve success with an HP). The first time I tried it I was able to run bcedit successfully, but when I did the reboot I got a blue screen of death. I had to go back and reinstall Vista to clear the problem. Since then, when I run bcedit in XP, it flashes by extremely fast and closes itself so I cannot even try to get the ID number again. Any ideas?

By: Miro

Miro — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:36:22 +0000

hi,
all is ok, but i dont reboot from XP to XP..
1.partition is Vista, 2.partition is XP..
Vista MBR.

Please HELP

…
VISTA – reboot = VISTA
VISTA – reboot into XP = XP
XP – reboot = VISTA ( please help with XP into XP)
XP – reboot into VISTA = VISTA

By: Pham Nuwen

Pham Nuwen — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:12:25 +0000

Awesome!

Now I just need to get me some Vista (for the Direct X 10 goodness coming up in STALKER Clear Skies) and figure out how to get sound and networking working in Ubuntu, and I will be in Computing ZEN. SOOOOOO bored of XP!

Sidenote: I haven’t checked this in Ubuntu, but I know in PC Linux OS 2007 Final, when you go to shut down, you can click and hold the restart button and choose which Grub session to load, thereby bypassing the Grub screen.

By: olad

olad — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:27:29 +0000

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By: ASLM

ASLM — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:07:58 +0000

Also, if you want the system to reboot immediatly after changing the menu.lst, just add a “sudo shutdown now -r” line at the end of the text file.

By: ASLM

ASLM — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:05:12 +0000

If you use grub you can do this very easily in ubuntu.
–First, make a backup copy of your /boot/grub/menu.lst file.
–Create as many copies of this file as the number of OS you want to boot to.
–give these copies distinguishing names like “menu_XP.lst”
–In each of the copies change the entry “Default N” so that N corresponds to the number of the corresponding OS. You might wanna change the “timeout X” too. (In my case, I put 0 for ubuntu and 3 for XP.)
–Then you just write a command that changes the menu.lst file for each of the OS. To do that, write a text file with the lines:
—-cd /boot/grub
—-sudo cp menu.lst
–Name it whatever you want, mark it as executable, and copy it to your /bin folder.

I have no idea how one might make a shortcut in windows that changes the menu.lst file in the linux partition. Which is why I couldn’t leave timeout 0 for windows. I’d be glad if anyone knows how to do that.

By: mmg1818

mmg1818 — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:31:27 +0000

I run only Shutdown /r /t 0 for Vista

Thanks

By: ender

ender — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:38:45 +0000

Also interested in an ubuntu version.