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hello to everyone my system has dual booting first vista was loaded then fedora 8 defaut os is fedra i want to make vista as default os please help in ...
  1. 10-19-2008 #1
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    [SOLVED] make vista as default os

    hello to everyone

    my system has dual booting
    first vista was loaded then fedora 8
    defaut os is fedra
    i want to make vista as default os
    please help in this regard

    regards
    bgreddy
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    Hello,

    under Fedora, open a console and type "cat /boot/grub/menu.lst"

    Change the number in the "default" line.
    Or post the output here, if you need further help.
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    Open the file /boot/grub/menu.lst as root.
    You are saying only two os are there in your computer. So Fedora would be listed first and it would be having number 0 and Vista will be having 1. If that's the case, then change the number in default to 1. Else replace it with the number shown in Vista's entry in grub.
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    Welcome to the forums, bgreddy!

    You can also just change the order in which they appear in the menu.lst file, but the edit of the default line as suggested by the others is the better approach, in my opinion.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Atom View Post
    Open the file /boot/grub/menu.lst as root.
    You are saying only two os are there in your computer. So Fedora would be listed first and it would be having number 0 and Vista will be having 1. If that's the case, then change the number in default to 1. Else replace it with the number shown in Vista's entry in grub.
    thanks it worked
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    ^^Problem solved. So mark the thread as SOLVED using Thread Tools menu.
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