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Old 03-06-2005, 12:43 PM   #1
MarcoTUX
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Question Dual Boot Menu Options


Hi everyone, my system runs with 512 of RAM, and two hard drives. my C: drive is a 40 g with two partitions in it, it is divided into to equal parts. on one partition I have Windows XP Pro, which works fine, and in the second partition I have SUSE 9.2 Pro, it works nice too.
My question is, how can I change the default OS to be Windows instead of SUSE?
Thanks in advance.
 
Old 03-06-2005, 12:50 PM   #2
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Welcome to LQ.

Which bootloader are you using?
 
Old 03-06-2005, 01:02 PM   #3
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Don't know about grub, but in lilo all you have to do is put default="LABEL" on the line below "map". Not too hard at all.
 
Old 03-06-2005, 01:25 PM   #4
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for grub on Suse:

"/boot/grub/menu.lst"

Change the "default" number to the windows entry. The first entry is 0 (most likely it's: "title SUSE LINUX 9.2"). See below for the top portion of a default Suse install.



color white/blue black/light-gray
default 0 <-----------------------------(change this number)
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd0,1)/boot/message

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title SUSE LINUX 9.2
kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 vga=0x31a selinux=1 splash=silent
resume=/dev/hda1 desktop elevator=as showopts
initrd (hd0,1)/boot/initrd
 
  


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