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[breillyb]

Hi everyone,
afetr a long time thinking about a linux os I finally decided on redhat enterprise to dual boot with my win xp on seperate hard drives. It's great having something new to experiment with but my linux knowledge is practically nil. I know it shouldn't take to long to get used to but one thing I need to know now is how to edit the grub in order to make xp start by default.
My partner also uses the computer and she prefers to use xp.
cheers

[glennzo]

Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst. There's a line that says default = x where x is the OS that will boot by er..., default. Change x to reflect the OS you want to boot by default, remembering that the first listed OS is considered 0, so if there's three OS's listed, the bottom one would be 2.

[breillyb]

I must be making some kind of schoolboy error. when i go to the terminal and enter the cmd

Edit/boot/grub/menu.lst

this is the reply

[root@x1-6-00-11-d8-c4-ca-d9 ~]# Edit/boot/grub/menu.lst
bash: Edit/boot/grub/menu.lst: No such file or directory
[root@x1-6-00-11-d8-c4-ca-d9 ~]#

[glennzo]

As root, in a terminal, type vi /boot/grub/menu.lst.

[devils casper]

dont forget gain root privileges before editing file. you can use a bit easier editor 'nano'.
execute this

su -
nano /boot/grub/grub.conf