Comment Times when neither LILO nor GRUB is enough (Score 2, Interesting) 281
There are situations where neither LILO nor GRUB seem to do the job. Here Syslinux can come in very handy. The cool feature of syslinux is that it allows you the ability to run your own custom code to decide which OS should be loaded. Here is an example taken from the syslinux mailing list:
You maintain a bunch of multiboot machines, which should only boot into Windows during some part of the day, only into linux during some part of the day and give you a choice during the rest of the day.
Issue 1: The OSes themselves are on the local machines, but definition of "part of the day" should be centrally administered
Issue 2: People can bring in their laptop's and plug in to the network. But a malicious user should not be able to defeat this network administered definition of "part of day".
You maintain a bunch of multiboot machines, which should only boot into Windows during some part of the day, only into linux during some part of the day and give you a choice during the rest of the day.
Issue 1: The OSes themselves are on the local machines, but definition of "part of the day" should be centrally administered
Issue 2: People can bring in their laptop's and plug in to the network. But a malicious user should not be able to defeat this network administered definition of "part of day".
