[SOLVED] fedora 16 grub1.99 and windows7

siickboii · 05-05-2012, 07:57 PM

My question/problem has been asked many times but I can't seem to get problem fixed following the comments that's been left. I have both windows and fedora running on my laptop. When grub loads, it's fedora that boots by default and I desire windows to boot by default.
This is what I have tried; In fedora I open terminal and at user prompt I type su and then get a password prompt. I type password and get this prompt; [root@siicboii siicboii]#
At this point I have typed several commands that have been left in comments such as /boot/grub/menu.lst and also /boot/grub/grub.conf and /boot/grub/grub.cfg and /boot/grub2/grub.conf
I always get; bash command not found.......

Can anyone help me with this?

yancek · 05-05-2012, 08:08 PM

If you are using Grub 1.99 on Fedora you need to go to the /etc/default/grub file and open it in a text editor as root user. Change the line below:

Quote:

GRUB_DEFAULT=0

The above should be the first line in the file. You would need to change the number zero (0) as shown above to whatever your windows entry is in the grub.cfg file so open the grub.cfg file: cat /boot/grub/grub.cfg and just count the menuentry titles until you get to the windows and put that number in the /etc/default/grub file. Grub entries count from zero, so if windows is the third menuentry, you put 2. Run update-grub as root after you make the change.

siickboii · 05-05-2012, 08:36 PM

/ect/default/grub file.....says no such file
/ect/default/grub.conf.....says no such file

:-(

towheedm · 05-05-2012, 08:51 PM

Are you certain you are using GRUB 1.99 and not GRUB-legacy (0.97). Fedora does not install GRUB 1.99 by default, it installs GRUB-legacy. Did you install GRUB 1.99 from the Fedora repos?

What does this command returns:

Code:

su -c "which grub-install grub2-install"

siickboii · 05-05-2012, 08:58 PM

When I boot up this is what it says
GNU GRUB version 1.99

It's what came with the fedora16 iso I downloaded from their site....

siickboii · 05-05-2012, 09:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by towheedm

Are you certain you are using GRUB 1.99 and not GRUB-legacy (0.97). Fedora does not install GRUB 1.99 by default, it installs GRUB-legacy. Did you install GRUB 1.99 from the Fedora repos?

What does this command returns:

Code:

su -c "which grub-install grub2-install"

I'm on my iPhone at work so please excuse any typos..... I ran that code on my laptop and it said this----> which: no grub-install in (/user/local/bin:/user/bin:/bin:/user/local/sbin:/user/sbi/sbin/grub2-install

towheedm · 05-05-2012, 09:14 PM

Sorry, I MUST learn to read. Fedora 16 does install GRUB 1.99 by default.

This also means that there MUST be a /etc/default/grub file.

Please post the results of:

Code:

ls -l /etc/default

siickboii · 05-05-2012, 09:29 PM

I can go through the GUI and there is a file named grub at ect/default/ grub but it won't let me edit cause it says I don't have promission. But I log in su on terminal and can't find it

siickboii · 05-05-2012, 09:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by towheedm

Sorry, I MUST learn to read. Fedora 16 does install GRUB 1.99 by default.

This also means that there MUST be a /etc/default/grub file.

Please post the results of:

Code:

ls -l /etc/default

total 12
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 236 May 5 12:58 grub
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1756 Oct 26 2011 nss
-rw-------. 1 root root 119 July 25 2011 useradd

towheedm · 05-05-2012, 09:49 PM

On Fedora, to run a GUI app as root requires you to install the 'beesu' package:

Code:

 su -c "yum install beesu"

Then:

Code:

beesu gedit /etc/default/grub

Or, if you're familiar with nano, simply:

Code:

su -c "nano /etc/default/grub"

Now, there are several ways of setting the Windows 7 menuentry item as the default. Check the position of the Windows 7 entry within the GRUB menu with the first entry starting at 0. So if Windows 7, is on the 4th line, it's entry 3.

Now change this line in /etc/default/grub to the entry number for Windows 7:

Code:

GRUB_DEFAULT=<the entry number for Win7>

The disadvantage of this, is that if you add other entries (even a simple kernel upgrade can cause this) before it, you must change it again.

A more fool-proof way is the set GRUB_DEFAULT to the title of the Windows 7, ie: if the entry is 'Microsoft Windows 7 (on /dev/sdb1)', set:

Code:

GRUB_DEFAULT="Microsoft Windows 7 (on /dev/sdb1)"

You may also want to set the default time that GRUB waits before booting the default entry:

Code:

GRUB_TIMEOUT=<no. of secs to wait>

Remember to update GRUB's boot configuration script after any changes to /etc/default/grub:

Code:

su -c "grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg"

siickboii · 05-05-2012, 10:14 PM

towheedm I assume I need Internet access to load beesu package? Im at work and only have net access on my phone.

towheedm · 05-05-2012, 10:30 PM

Then use nano from the terminal:

Code:

su -c "nano /etc/default/grub"

It's a very simple text editor. <CTRL-O> to save your changes and <CTRL-X> to exit when done.

siickboii · 05-05-2012, 10:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by towheedm

Then use nano from the terminal:

Code:

su -c "nano /etc/default/grub"

It's a very simple text editor. <CTRL-O> to save your changes and <CTRL-X> to exit when done.

tried the nano and it returns. command. not found
maybe banging my head against the wall would help? tehehe

towheedm · 05-05-2012, 10:45 PM

Code:

su -c "which nano"

returns what?

Just checked and apparently nano is not installed by default in F16.

yancek · 05-05-2012, 10:55 PM

Try gedit as a possible text editor. Look under the Applications tab and find the name of the editor then open a terminal and as root (explained in a previous post) open the editor to that file.