[WBEL-users] Remote Control of Dual Boot Options

[Tech Support]

On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 20:26, Stanley P. Miller - StanMiller.Info wrote: 
> I'm sure there are better ways to do this but one option is to
> install windows on one partition and Linux on another and toggle
> the active partition to boot the OS of your choice.
> 
This is what I am currently doing, but it doesn't work well, I risk 
damaging the file systems or I have to be at the PC (one of my goals 
is remote rebooting).
> 
> Another option might be to install grub on a FAT partition and
> have it boot then load the OS of your choice. You could then edit
> the grub.conf file from Windows or Linux as both support FAT
> filesystems.
> 
I have thought about this -- it seemed like the most promising from 
a file system integrity point of view, but I don't know how I can 
keep the kids from messing with this.  Windows can't protect a dos 
file system (as far as I know) and I don't know how to prevent 
Windows from mounting a readable partition (I can hide it with grub,
but then I don't know how to mount it again when I need it).  
> 
> Stanley Miller
> 
I was hoping there was some tool in Linux that would make this easy, 
but it looks like I might have to see if there is a way to use the 
DOS partition and only mount it as administrator (when needed).  
Does anybody know how to use Windows well?
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