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default optn at dual boot (lin+win)
Name: amogh_ Date: January 19, 2005 at 06:12:49 Pacific OS: Win XP Professional CPU/Ram: 800 MHz ; 256 MB
Comment:
Hello the problem not so serious...
I have dual boot...Windows XP +linux(redhat8.0) and default boot option is linux right now thru grub loader. i just wanted to change the default boot option in grub loader ...to windows(ie DOS)
Name: 3Dave Date: January 19, 2005 at 08:05:49 Pacific
Reply:
You need to edit gryb.conf and change/add an entry "default=x" where "x" is the image you want to boot by default. I'm pretty sure that it starts at 0 so if you wanted to boot the third image in the list it would be "default=2"....although I'm a lilo user so I may be wrong.
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Response Number 2
Name: Guy Date: January 19, 2005 at 18:27:10 Pacific
Reply:
Confirm: In grub.conf "default=" starts at 0, just like lilo.
Here is my grub.conf, XP the default, hope you can figure out what is on each line:
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