From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1JAOU8-0007mD-KG for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 06:43:40 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JAOU6-0007j3-Sc for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 06:43:38 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JAOU5-0007gu-MP for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 06:43:38 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JAOU5-0007gZ-DN for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 06:43:37 -0500 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JAOU5-0006GW-3v for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 06:43:37 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.6] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JAOTj-0006j6-1i for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:43:15 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JAORF-0001ia-4R for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:40:41 +0100 Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 12:40:41 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080103114041.GC6358@thorin> References: <200801030111.m031Bui8023593@mail.moosefactory.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200801030111.m031Bui8023593@mail.moosefactory.com> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: Conditional Statement in Grub 2 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:43:39 -0000 On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 01:11:56AM -0000, Antonio Dupont wrote: > > > Hello, > > I apologize if this is the wrong list, but this is the list I have found > through my searches. Please tell me where to go if this is not the proper place. > > I would like to have grub do a conditional statement similar to this: > > if file_name on /dev/cdrom matches file_name on /dev/sda1 (USB device) then > boot Linux else boot Windows You can do this with GRUB, the syntax I don't recall exactly but it is bash-like. > I'm using CentOS 5.0 and if I can do it with Grub 0.97 that comes with the > distro that would be great. I can also upgrade if needed. GRUB 2 only. -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)