Found the answer. All solved by using the password operator withing the specific OS selection I wanted to restrict.
Thanks for all the good work on grub. Cheers & out, Mark On 7/30/06, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, First post here. I'm just a user who hasn't found a solution to this question via normal user lists and forum searches. I figure you developers are the best ones to tell me whether grub supports this. Thanks in advance. I set up all my machines as dual-boot with Linux and Windows. For fairly obvious reasons I want Linux to be the default boot option which grub handles nicely. However, so far I have not figured out how to *stop* someone from choosing Windows at boot time. I would prefer to have the OS boot option screen default to Linux and if someone chooses the Windows option then grub would ask for a password to proceed. Can this be done with the current product versions of grub? Currently I've tried the password option but this doesn't stop someone from booting Windows as best I can tell. It just unlocks the editing of the grub commands. I also tried adding the hiddenmenu option but when that is running it seems password doesn't work at all and I just get the default. Maybe there is a way to apply the password command inside the specific OS section but I haven't located any documentation on that as of yet. If it matters, this is a home environment where we all run Linux but occasionally have to do something on Windows. I want to ensure Windows is only run when I say it can be and not when kids decide to do it. ;-) Anyway, thanks in advance for any info you can pass on. Cheers, Mark
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