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Old August 10th, 2004, 08:40 AM
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Reboot in a different partition

I have a HD with 2 partitions on it and 2 different OS. I would like to know if it is possible to reboot remotely (with ssh) the machine so I can switch between the 2 OS?

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Old August 10th, 2004, 02:35 PM
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The boot partition is controlled by the open firmware variable "boot-device". The command for manipulating open firmware is nvram - check the nvram manpage, see what the "boot-device" variable is for each volume you're interested in.

Should be doable...
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