Boot Thing

Mr.Orb · 01-27-2005, 11:42 AM

Hi,
I just installed Fedora onto my other harddrive and when the pc starts it goes into fedora... Can I make it so it goes into windows xp (when the counter has finished counting down)?

Mr.Orb · 01-27-2005, 03:26 PM

anyone?

hilowe · 01-27-2005, 03:58 PM

I'm assuming that you installed GRUB as your bootloader.

You are going to have to edit the config file for it. It's located in /boot/grub/grub.conf.

Without making it home to look at my computer, I don't know exactly what you're going to have to edit it to say. I'll post back after I get home and have a few minutes to look (may be kind of late).

charles@pcfix · 01-27-2005, 06:39 PM

cd /boot/grub vim grub.conf change the default entry to the number that you want to boot first. You will need to be root to do this. I would always make a back up copy of any file you are makeing changes too. Just in case....................

NIN · 01-28-2005, 02:22 AM

edit the grub.conf file like they said and make the default 1. considering you only have two os's on the system. that will make it start the second os the default os. BTW make sure that the default it zero. You also can set it at install but we are past that now. Just an FYI.

Mr.Orb · 01-28-2005, 12:04 PM

Well I just changed it... and I had problems booting :eek:

here is the orginal file

Quote:

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd1,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
title Other
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

What should I change it too?

charles@pcfix · 01-29-2005, 12:08 AM

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,1)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda3
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.358)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img
title Windblows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader

This is set to boot linux as default.
This setup is on a single harddrive, it looks like you are on a seperate drive. you will need to put a 1 in place of the 0 in (hd1,0) make it hd1, 1) leave default at 0 and give this a shot. rememer to back up and have a boot floppy handy just in case.....

Mr.Orb · 01-29-2005, 06:10 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by charles@pcfix

This is set to boot linux as default.
This setup is on a single harddrive, it looks like you are on a seperate drive. you will need to put a 1 in place of the 0 in (hd1,0) make it hd1, 1) leave default at 0 and give this a shot. rememer to back up and have a boot floppy handy just in case.....

I don't want Linux to boot as default... I want Windows to boot as default.

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