Hi all, I,like probably a lot of people have my system dual booted with window$ XP and Mint. How do I set the boot loader to load Window$ as the default operating system, with Mint loaded when selected?
Thanks to all.
default boot O/S
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default boot O/S
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Re: default boot O/S
hi,
just edit the default entry in the file /boot/grub/menu.lst
type in terminal:
greetings
just edit the default entry in the file /boot/grub/menu.lst
type in terminal:
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sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
Re: default boot O/S
Hi, thanks for the reply. Put in the terminal command you supplied, got into "grub" and saw all the different options and not sure which one to edit to change the default boot O/S. Never done anything like this before. Any chance of a quick walk through please?
Thanks again.
Thanks again.
Re: default boot O/S
HI,
All you need to do is switch around your Linux mint entry and your Windows entry - making Windows the first entry and thus will be selected first by grub when you boot.
You should see something like this near the bottom with your windows entry somewhere under it, this is where I mean.
title Linux Mint 6, kernel 2.6.27-9-generic
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinux-2.6.27.generic root=/dev/sda1 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-9-generic
All you need to do is switch around your Linux mint entry and your Windows entry - making Windows the first entry and thus will be selected first by grub when you boot.
You should see something like this near the bottom with your windows entry somewhere under it, this is where I mean.
title Linux Mint 6, kernel 2.6.27-9-generic
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinux-2.6.27.generic root=/dev/sda1 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-9-generic
Re: default boot O/S
Hi again,
i think its easier to change this value in the menu.lst file:
line 14 (in my file)
default 0
you have to count starting from 0 to the value where your Windows entry is:
in my file it looks like this at the bottom of the file:
if i would have liked my Win2000 to be the defalut value i would have to set the defalut value to 5 (the title Other operating systems counts too)
hope that helps....
bye
i think its easier to change this value in the menu.lst file:
line 14 (in my file)
default 0
you have to count starting from 0 to the value where your Windows entry is:
in my file it looks like this at the bottom of the file:
if i would have liked my Win2000 to be the defalut value i would have to set the defalut value to 5 (the title Other operating systems counts too)
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## ## End Default Options ##
title Linux Mint 6, kernel 2.6.27-7-generic
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic root=/dev/sda3 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-7-generic
quiet
title Linux Mint 6, kernel 2.6.27-7-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic root=/dev/sda3 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-7-generic
title Linux Mint 6, kernel Last successful boot
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/last-good-boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 ro quiet splash last-good-boot
quiet
title Linux Mint 6, memtest86+
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet
### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
# This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
# ones.
title Other operating systems:
root
# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda1
title Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
root (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1
hope that helps....
bye