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Offline P5music

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tinycore boot if a key is pressed?
« on: October 26, 2010, 06:41:24 AM »
Hello,
say I have two OS in the same machine (on hard disk) that I choose between at boot by menu. One is tinycore.
Is it possible to boot one by default but just if  no key is pressed? While if a special key (shift, ctrl, F1,etc) is pressed then the other boots?
Thanks

Offline Juanito

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Re: tinycore boot if a key is pressed?
« Reply #1 on: October 26, 2010, 07:43:35 AM »
grub and other bootloaders will allow you to set a default and you could set the time out for the default to zero, but you would need to use the arrow keys and <enter> to boot the other os

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Re: tinycore boot if a key is pressed?
« Reply #2 on: October 26, 2010, 11:11:41 AM »
P5music,

what is the other OS?
"Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster." Niklaus Wirth - A Plea for Lean Software (1995)

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Re: tinycore boot if a key is pressed?
« Reply #3 on: October 26, 2010, 12:28:02 PM »
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what is the other OS?
any OS, like Vista or Ubuntu