Choosing Default Load OS for Dual Boot Systems

[SlickAU]

Hey Everyone

I have both fedora Core 4 (Linux) and Windows XP Pro installed on my system. The only problem is, when i turn my rig on it comes up with a message saying something like:

"loading fedora core. Press any button to choose which operating system to boot from"

Then it counts down from 3 to 0 and automatically loads Windows.

The thing is, I want it to automatically load Windows instead of Linux!!!

Anyone know how you specify the default boot system???

Thanks

 

[TGS]

make a symlink from /boot/grub/grub.conf to menu.lst

If you aren't getting the graphical menu to choose which OS to boot, when you make that link you should get access to all the options in the grub.conf.

should be like:

ln -s /boot/grub/grub.conf /boot/grub/menu.lst

You may have to bump up the time to 5-10 seconds to give yourself time to switch. When I dual boot, I typically bump that up a few seconds for when I want to switch.

For switching to windows first, just change the default value to the windows entry.

IE if it's the second entry default should be 1. Or move it to the top of the list and keep it as default 0.


Assuming, you are using grub, and assuming in this statement:

Then it counts down from 3 to 0 and automatically loads Windows.

The thing is, I want it to automatically load Windows instead of Linux!!!

You mean it automatically loads linux.