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Unity Reboot (Launcher To Quickly Reboot In A Different OS) Updated For Ubuntu 12.10 And 13.04

| Date: January 22, 2013 | View Comments | Tags: dual boot, launcher, linux, ubuntu, unity, unity reboot

Today I've updated Unity Reboot to work with the latest GRUB 2.0 available in Ubuntu 12.10 and 13.04.

Unity Reboot is a custom Unity launcher that can be used to quickly reboot into a different OS / Linux distribution, useful for those who dual boot (or triple boot or... it should work with any number of operating systems, including Windows, various Linux distributions like Ubuntu and Fedora, etc.). This isn't just for Unity and it should also work with docks that support Unity quicklists, like DockBarX, Cairo Dock or Plank.

Here's a screenshot with Unity Reboot in Ubuntu 12.10 on a system on which I triple boot: Ubuntu 12.10, Fedora 18 and Windows 7 (in VirtualBox, set up just for testing this):

unity reboot ubuntu fedora windows 7


Unity Reboot (Ubuntu Unity Launcher To Reboot In A Different OS) Available In A PPA

| Date: September 13, 2011 | View Comments | Tags: linux, ubuntu, unity, unity reboot

Unity Reboot in other OS

A while back I wrote a custom Unity launcher to reboot in a different OS, useful if you dual boot.

Let me remind you how it works: 
  • when GRUB starts, the first GRUB menu item is highlighted - selecting to reboot from this custom launcher will highlight the menu entry you set and will boot it if you don't select a different option in the GRUB menulist (so the GRUB menu will still be displayed if you've set a GRUB timeout higher than 0 but you can set it to 0 and directly boot into the selected OS).
  • This only applies for one reboot, then everything is back to normal.

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