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Bug 72276 - GDM could offer a "Reboot to Windows" option in the shutdown menu
GDM could offer a "Reboot to Windows" option in the shutdown menu
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 71238
Product: gdm
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other other
: Low enhancement
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Assigned To: GDM maintainers
GDM maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-02-22 19:18 UTC by Marc Prud'hommeaux
Modified: 2006-01-12 23:37 UTC
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Description Marc Prud'hommeaux 2002-02-22 19:18:11 UTC 
Package: gdm
Severity: enhancement
Version: 2.2.5.4-2
Synopsis: GDM could offer a "Reboot to Windows" option in the shutdown menu
Bugzilla-Product: gdm
Bugzilla-Component: general

Description:
In the System->Reboot menu, GDM could check lilo.conf and see the
available targets, and then offer options for rebooting into each of the
listed targets (by first running 'lilo -R <target>' and then doing the
reboot). This would allow people that dual-boot to easily jump back into
Windows.




------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2002-02-22 14:18 -------

Reassigning to the default owner of the component, jirka@5z.com.
Comment 1 Gediminas Paulauskas 2002-02-22 23:42:15 UTC 
A possible nice feature -- integration with lilo... Rebooting into
windows is not a priority task, but easily rebooting into another
version of linux kernel or FreeBSD would be nice :)

However, it is quite non-general. What if you are using other boot
manager, like GRUB?
Comment 2 Mark Finlay 2002-07-15 14:03:14 UTC 
AFAIK KDM manges to pull it off even with grub installed
Comment 3 Brian Cameron 2006-01-12 23:37:38 UTC 
Having the ability to define a "Reboot to Windows" mode is a good example of how being able to define "custom system menu commands" would be useful.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 71238 ***