Re: Boot a computer over a network...

[Jason Knight <ftjek@uaf.edu>]

>Set a cronjob to (1)modify the bootloader mac-pref file & (2)reboot.  Seems 
>simple, but dunno as to the structure of the mac bootloader pref file.
:) I've been poking around in linux for a little while now, but I'm still 
not sure what this means. Excuse any oversimplification, but cron is a 
utility to execute on a timer, yes? Following on the above suggestion, 
would it then be possible to mount the mac drive (it would have to HFS, 
not the newer HFS+) swap out the preference file that tells the computer 
to boot linux with one that tells it to boot mac, then reboot? In theory, 
a corresponding applescript or something could be run at Mac startup to 
again flip flop these, so that at closing time, linux loads by default 
I'm afraid I'm not much help beyond concept here. I might be able to 
figure out an applescript, but I obviously know nothing about cron. Would 
this work, or am I way off base?

Jason