Boot another OS e.g. Windows *once* on a dual-boot machine

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Published on 2012-12-17T15:52:25Z Indexed on 2012/12/17 17:04 UTC
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I have a dual-boot machine with Windows and Linux on it. It doesn't reside at my hand, instead , it's placed in the datacenter which I have to access remotely. For most of time, I work on Linux. But there is some occasion that I have to use the Windows OS on it. Here is the problem. I hope to do all those following things remotely.

  1. Do some magic to Grub. Reboot the machine from Linux.
  2. Grub boots Windows.
  3. Access Windows remotely. Work done. Reboot the machine from Windows.
  4. Grub boots Linux.

So I wonder whether I can set the booting target at the next time, for only once? Thanks.

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