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michel7
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 Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 1:43 pm Post subject: OS selection dialog on KDE shutdown screen? |
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| In Mandriva/Suse/Kubuntu when you click on the shutdown button in the KDE menu and choose to reboot (long press button), it appears a list with the next operating system to reboot with. Is there any way to integrate it into my Gentoo KDE shutdown button? |
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xalan
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| Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 1:48 pm Post subject: Re: OS selection dialog on KDE shutdown |
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| michel7 wrote: | Hello,
in Mandriva/Suse/Kubuntu when you click on the shutdown button in the KDE menu and choose to reboot, it appears a list with the next operating system to reboot with. Is there any way to integrate it into my Gentoo KDE shutdown button? |
If you have grub or lilo then why would you need that? You are turning the machine off when you shutdown. I am assuming you are operating the machine not remotely but by sitting in front of it. In that case when you turn it back on you do get grub option to select the operating system to boot from.
Now if you are working on the machine remotely its a different matter. The thing KDE is doing in the background is to modify the default kernel to load on boot. There must be a KDE tool and nothing specific to dist. |
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michel7
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| Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 2:08 pm Post subject: |
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Ok the option which should enable this feature ist in KDE Control Center -> System Administration -> Login Manager -> Shutdown -> Boot manager=GRUB ... but it doesnt work for me. I think im missing some settings for grub.conf
Can anyone help me pls? |
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MLS100
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| Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 8:45 pm Post subject: |
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Likely it modifies the value of default in grub.conf, so you probably need /boot mounted for that if you don't have it mounted already.
Just a shot in the dark, never used that option myself.
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xalan
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| Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 1:14 am Post subject: |
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| MLS100 wrote: | Likely it modifies the value of default in grub.conf, so you probably need /boot mounted for that if you don't have it mounted already.
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Good catch MLS. Gentoo recommends that /boot be set "noauto" in /etc/fstab. If that is the case then /boot need to be manually mounted. In OP's case it might be a possible explanation. So OP check if /boot is mounted by default on every boot. If not you might need to edit your fstab accordingly.
If this diagnosis is not correct then i am clueless  as to what other configs you need to touch. |
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FcukThisGame
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In mandriva, I know that it'll only work with lilo as your bootloader. Idk why, but I've asked about the same type of thing and for some reason I've never gotten that to work. Maybe a feature of the next versions of grub / kde?
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michel7
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| Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 3:37 pm Post subject: |
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| FcukThisGame wrote: | | In mandriva, I know that it'll only work with lilo as your bootloader. Idk why, but I've asked about the same type of thing and for some reason I've never gotten that to work. Maybe a feature of the next versions of grub / kde? |
In Suse it works with Grub too ... so still waiting for a solution! |
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harvester
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Any luck with this issue ?
I would like it to work.. KDE's Login Manager's grub setting does not work. You can select windows but the system will boot normally.. it seems like grub is missing something.. here is kdes log :
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GNU GRUB version 0.97 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)
[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB
lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
completions of a device/filename. ]
grub> savedefault --default=1 --once
Error 27: Unrecognized command
grub>
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taken from kdm.log |
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