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Old 07-10-2006
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Editing Boot Manager.

Is there a way in which you can edit the boot manager in Suse so that Windows is at the top of the list?
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Old 07-10-2006
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"The GRUB configuration file is /boot/grub/menu.lst.
Some distributions use another configuration file; for example, Red Hat Linux uses the file /boot/grub/grub.conf.

How do you change the default OS that GRUB loads?

In menu.lst, perhaps found somewhere beneath /boot, there is an entry: "default."

"default" is the index number of the title entry that you want.

default 0
title Suse
...
title Windows
...

In the above example, the default is "Suse." If you wanted to change it to "Windows," you would set default to 1"

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Old 07-10-2006
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Thankx for the link. I am a newbie to linux so i dont know where to type the commands.

I did a search under "/boot" in linux and found the boot manager application. i launched it and set the default as windows with the GUI.

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Old 07-13-2006
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Okay still on editing boot manager....
I installed Fedora C5 on the unallocated space on my second hard drive which is just used for storage.

Whenever i reboot I dont get the Grub loader to boot into linux or windows, it just boots into windows. Looking through partition magic i can see the bootable linux partition on my second hard drive.

Should I move that partition to be before the C partition?
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