default boot O/S

[calymea]

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.

[hsoltau]

hi,
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

greetings

[calymea]

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.

[proxima_centauri]

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

[hsoltau]

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)

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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