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Old 6th July 2008, 03:16 PM
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Vista 64bit and Fedora 64bit boot

how can i change which OS to boot fist i have fedora which always boot after 3 seconds but i want to change it to vista because noone in my home know not to use fedora
is this possible?
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Old 6th July 2008, 03:20 PM
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Edit the "default=" line in /etc/grub.conf so that the Vista entry is default. Note the numbering starts at 0.
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Old 6th July 2008, 03:30 PM
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can u explain it where to write that because im noob
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Old 6th July 2008, 03:34 PM
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Login as root, find the directory /etc and edit the file grub.conf using your favourite text editor. You should see something like this:

default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd1,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
password --md5 $1$BgMHP4i/$/rvXDSa1468xGleqC/gU61
title Fedora (2.6.25.9-40.fc8)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.25.9-40.fc8 ro root=/dev/md0
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.25.9-40.fc8.img
title Memtest86+ (1.70)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/memtest86+-1.70 ro root=/dev/md0

But one of your entries will be for vista. eg. If I want my machine to boot memtest by default I would change the default=0 to default=1.
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Old 6th July 2008, 06:22 PM
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I Edited It To
Code:
#boot=/dev/sda
default=1
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,4)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.25.9-76.fc9.x86_64)
	root (hd0,4)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.25.9-76.fc9.x86_64 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
	initrd /initrd-2.6.25.9-76.fc9.x86_64.img
title Fedora (2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64)
	root (hd0,4)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64 ro root=UUID=8b09c8f7-d786-464e-8e7e-27dd90a7759f rhgb quiet
	initrd /initrd-2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64.img
title Other
	rootnoverify (hd0,1)
	chainloader +1
But Not Works

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Try default=2 as this would boot "other" which is what fedora has called vista in grub.
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Works now thnx a lot
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