I've got Windows and recently I installed Fedora Core, when I updated Fedora Core my PC did not boot Windows as standard anymore, how can I change this?
Last edited by Roald on Mon Dec 17, 2007 8:33 pm; edited 1 time in total
A quick Google search has found this website that I'm sure will help.
I've only changed the Grub boot order in Ubuntu, so I'm not sure of the exact path or command you'll need. But you need to change the default selected OS by editing "menu.lst" in the Grub directory. There is an entry in menu.lst that will probably be "default=0" - look through the list of available Operating Systems in the list within the file. Count down from the top of this list where the first entry is 0, the second entry is 1, the third entry is 2... If Windows was (say) 3 on the list, change "default=0" to "default=3". You may also want to change the timeout from the default 10 seconds to something like 2 so that Linux only boots when you want it to.
HTH 
Thanks for your help. It worked , you can now close this topic if you would like to (not yet, I'm asking another question, see below please).
Last edited by Roald on Mon Dec 25, 2006 7:42 pm; edited 2 times in total | Roald wrote: |
| Thanks for your help. It worked |
Glad to be of service 
Well I've got another problem now, I can mount my Windows partition but I can only use it in root? Is it possible to use it with other accounts?
what is in your /etc/fstab file
and what groups do you have root and users being part of?
modify the /etc/fstab entry like this according to your needs
/dev/hda2 /windows vfat user,noauto,umask=0 0 0
sth in the regexp form hd[abc][0-9]+ should be put instead of hda2 in above line.
Root and Roald are part of the group users, my /etc/ftstab conains this: | Code: |
# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrecorder auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,$/dev/hdc /media/cdrom auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,$ |
Edit grub's config file: /boot/grub/menu.lst . Append the following to the file:
| Code: |
title Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
root (hd1,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1 |
Where (hd1,0) is your windows install partition. | redice wrote: |
Edit grub's config file: /boot/grub/menu.lst . Append the following to the file:
| Code: | title Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
root (hd1,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1 |
Where (hd1,0) is your windows install partition. |
Thanks for your help but there is already an answer on this question.post the output of the command as root
# fdisk -l
PS: It's a small L, not a capital i
