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Offline CFH

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Back to Bootloader without rebooting
« on: December 02, 2014, 04:25:50 PM »
is there a command that will kill the current session and launch the bootloader, like rebooting but without rebooting? 

I have TinyCore on a USB - when rebooting we have to hit F12 to specify to boot from USB instead of hard drive.  It would be nice to save a step and just reload the bootloader to select a different distro.

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Re: Back to Bootloader without rebooting
« Reply #1 on: December 03, 2014, 03:29:11 AM »
Usually you can change the boot order on start up by changing the settings in BIOS, not sure if you can do the same if you have UEFI.
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Re: Back to Bootloader without rebooting
« Reply #2 on: December 03, 2014, 09:31:36 AM »
Thanks, I was just wondering if there was a faster way other than altering the default boot order.  If not, that's fine - just wondering.
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Re: Back to Bootloader without rebooting
« Reply #3 on: December 03, 2014, 12:23:03 PM »
A far as I am aware, it is the (BIOS) program in the computer that loads the boot loader, so I don't think it can be circumvented.
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Re: Back to Bootloader without rebooting
« Reply #4 on: December 03, 2014, 05:32:37 PM »
That makes sense.  Thanks...
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