Hello thar!
My pc boots into linux by default. I dont want it to as i use windows more often.
Also my pc has a problem atm and reboots itself while windows is running. This means shared files on my pc become unavailable because my pc boots into linux and is no longer on the windows network. How can i change it to boot into windows by default?
Also, i have a scrwed up boot menu. It asks which version of ubuntu i want or i can select windows. Then when i select windows it goes to another boot menu that i didnt remove after uninstalling windows vista rc1 a while back. How can i fix that thing? its kindof annoying. :-)
Thank you all so much!

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teh 1337 j03

Hi Mintedjo,

I've had a look around and I will ask about the boot order problem and get back to you as soon as I can, this is a problem best sorted by the linux gurus as the boot loader is a linux one when you install linux onto a system.
take care
Radar

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Hi,

I found a GRUB boot editor here and this should help get you on the right track to changing the boot order of your system.
let us know how you do

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Thanks. I`ll try it when i get chance

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teh 1337 j03

Any luck mintedjo, if not i can help you edit the grub file.

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I havent got round to trying yet.
Purely bcos i`m worried if something goes wrong i will end up formatting my disk and reinstalling my os's. Not something i want to do halfway thru my university course. I'd lose way too much important stuff. I've decided to leave it until after my exams in may/june. When i do eventually attempt it i`ll let you know how it goes. Thanks for your concern anyways :-)
Bye for now

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teh 1337 j03

Hi MintedJo,

Cool, not a good idea just in case you do lose something. There is one thing I have learned in the time I have been dealing with both Commercial and Personal PC,s and that is BACKUP, BACKUP, BACKUP!!!!
Please do this regularly, I've seen too many distraught people when I can't recover anything from the crashed hard drive.
Take care and let us know when you do decide to go ahead with the edit.

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Hi there!

There's (assuming you're using GRUB) a config file named menu.lst which will normally been in /boot/grub, so /boot/grub/menu.lst.

There's a line in such as "default 0" change that to "defualt 1" (if you only have win/linux) and it'll boot windows by default.

There's no chance you will loose anything or have to reinstall just by editing a config file, back the config file up before editing, and if you bust the config file, boot with a linux live cd and restore it, or, if worst comes to worst, boot the windows install cd, press r to get to recovery and do a fixboot which will at least enable you to boot into windows, no reinstall needed.

So just to recap:

sudo cp /boot/grub/menu.lst ~/menu.lst.backup (copy menu.lst to menu.lst.backup in your home directory)

sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst (replace nano with whatever text editor you wish to use, nano is simple enough though) and change the 0 of default to 1. Bob's your mother's brother.

Hope this helps

Ok I've reached a stage where i can afford to lose pretty much everything on my pc. This doesnt really matter anyway cos i think anything bad that happens can be sorted out thru linux.
Anyhoo, Ive got a new mission now. I changed the default thing as suggested and that worked a treat. However, i would now like to remove an intermediate boot loader that windows vista installed. Currently i am having to select windows on grub and then windows xp on the next loader. As i no longer have vista installed i dont want to have to choose which version of windows i use.
Its my fault that the loader is there because i did a shoddy removal of vista (formatted the partition using GParted) but i want to sort it out now. :-)

Its not essential that i remove the loader, as long as i dont have to see it ever again.

Anybody got any ideas? :-)

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teh 1337 j03

I'm not too sure as I have never messed much with the windows bootloader, all I can think of is booting the windows recovery console and doing a fixboot and fixmbr and then restoring GRUB with a live disk or SuperGrubDisk.

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