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Grub boot loader in Fedora Core 1

John Garrott — Wed, 25 Feb 2004 12:30:48 GMT

I have setup my PC as a dual-boot with Windows XP Pro and Red Hat Fedora Core 1. I am familiar with configuring the LILO boot loader to use the Windows boot.ini and setting Windows as the default OS to boot. Currently Grub has Fedora as the default boot, so I have to manually select the second option (dos) to boot into Windows. Can anyone either explain how to either re-configure Grub to default to Windows at boot (and change the menu text from "DOS" to "Windows"), or point Grub to the boot.ini?

Thanks in advance,
John

Re: Grub boot loader in Fedora Core 1

Bill Wood_3 — Wed, 25 Feb 2004 12:41:06 GMT

change default in /boot/grub/grub.conf to match the stanza that you need. The numbers start at 0. If this doesn't work, post you grub.conf file.

Re: Grub boot loader in Fedora Core 1

Alexander Chuzhoy — Wed, 25 Feb 2004 13:00:28 GMT

Edit the file /etc/grub.conf

the first entry to boot (the first title entry) is 0
so change your default respectively.
save your changes and reboot...

Re: Grub boot loader in Fedora Core 1

John Garrott — Wed, 25 Feb 2004 13:21:10 GMT

Bill and Alexander,

Thanks, you provided exactly what I needed. I took HP's Red Hat Linux for HP-UX administrators last month, but the class covered 7.2 and LILO and hardly mentioned Grub.