XP - Fedora - Grub dual boot issue
I have a desktop box running XP
on a second internal hard drive i downloaded Fedora 12, (now 13) on start up the box always boots into Fedora 13, and I have no way of booting into windows. during the start up process i am given the option to enter into grub, but it only gives me 3 seconds to hit any key, and when i do hit a key it doesn't seem to register and we always boot into fedora. What I would like to do is to automatically go to a grub screen and have the option of which to choose direct from start up. All the grub tutorials I have found all seem to be slightly beyond my starting point of linux knowledge. is there a real simple guide or way to do this? thanks in advance |
Please provide the content of the grub configuration file. The file is /boot/grub/menu.lst or /etc/grub.conf
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yes I will post the contents here, my problem is how do i open that file.
if through the terminal, how do i cut and paste that? thanks |
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from the terminal run gedit as root
you need to be root to edit the grub.conf file Code:
su - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/index.html |
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here is the boot/grub/menu.lst file # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd1,0) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_penguin-lv_root # initrd /initrd-[generic-]version.img #boot=/dev/sda default=0 timeout=50 splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title Fedora (2.6.33.5-124.fc13.i686) root (hd1,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.33.5-124.fc13.i686 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_penguin-lv_root noiswmd LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=uk rhgb quiet initrd /initramfs-2.6.33.5-124.fc13.i686.img title Fedora (2.6.33.5-112.fc13.i686) root (hd1,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.33.5-112.fc13.i686 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_penguin-lv_root noiswmd LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=uk rhgb quiet initrd /initramfs-2.6.33.5-112.fc13.i686.img title Fedora (2.6.33.4-95.fc13.i686) root (hd1,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.33.4-95.fc13.i686 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_penguin-lv_root noiswmd LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=uk rhgb quiet initrd /initramfs-2.6.33.4-95.fc13.i686.img title Other rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 and the /etc/grub.conf file # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd1,0) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_penguin-lv_root # initrd /initrd-[generic-]version.img #boot=/dev/sda default=0 timeout=50 splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title Fedora (2.6.33.5-124.fc13.i686) root (hd1,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.33.5-124.fc13.i686 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_penguin-lv_root noiswmd LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=uk rhgb quiet initrd /initramfs-2.6.33.5-124.fc13.i686.img title Fedora (2.6.33.5-112.fc13.i686) root (hd1,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.33.5-112.fc13.i686 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_penguin-lv_root noiswmd LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=uk rhgb quiet initrd /initramfs-2.6.33.5-112.fc13.i686.img title Fedora (2.6.33.4-95.fc13.i686) root (hd1,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.33.4-95.fc13.i686 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_penguin-lv_root noiswmd LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=uk rhgb quiet initrd /initramfs-2.6.33.4-95.fc13.i686.img title Other rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 thanks for any help |
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the documents are quite comprehensive but i couldn't find anything which would help with my problem? could you point me to the right section of the documents as I was struggling to find an answer which was basic enough for me to understand? thanks for the help. |
Hi,
you might want to put # into hiddenmenu to disable it #hiddenmenu and set default=0 to default=3 to boot directly to winxp cmiiw |
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