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Dual booting
Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 12:38 am
by Darcler
My PC has both Linux and Windows on it. When you start the computer, it defaults to wanting to boot into Linux, gives you that 10 second timer unless you move it to Windows.
How do I make the default Windows? Gid did it to this laptop but he failed to tell me how he did it. I'd like to be able to start up and walk away while it boots up without coming back and rebooting to get out of Linux.
Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 8:09 am
by Lionking
Open the PC case, grab a large magnet and place it on the hard drive. Issue solved.
Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 8:46 am
by Evermore
Darc it depends on what he is using to dual boot. if its the XP one that is setable in windows
Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 9:02 am
by Lyion
You need to change the grub boot file to change the default OS to boot to.
If you have the root password, login to linux as root
at the first command prompt, type
vi /boot/grub/menu.lst
You can move around within vi with the hjkl keys.
There will be a line with default 0, move over the 0. type r, then hit the number that coincides with your windows boot system, it should be 1, 2, 3 etc.. It is the number of places down windows is, starting at 0. If it is the third one down, it is 2.
after r, hit : then wq! which should be at the bottom of the screen and will save the file, and then reboot. Voila all done.
IM me if you are confuzzled.
Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 9:02 am
by Darcler
Lionking wrote:Open the PC case, grab a large magnet and place it on the hard drive. Issue solved.
Think it'll work? I'll go try it now!
Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 10:15 am
by Narrock
lyion wrote:You need to change the grub boot file to change the default OS to boot to.
If you have the root password, login to linux as root
at the first command prompt, type
vi /boot/grub/menu.lst
You can move around within vi with the hjkl keys.
There will be a line with default 0, move over the 0. type r, then hit the number that coincides with your windows boot system, it should be 1, 2, 3 etc.. It is the number of places down windows is, starting at 0. If it is the third one down, it is 2.
after r, hit : then wq! which should be at the bottom of the screen and will save the file, and then reboot. Voila all done.
IM me if you are confuzzled.
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 3:45 am
by Darcler
lol no shit, man.