I did Ubuntu installation on my computer other day. Which is now the main first selection. I want to make the WinXP as a default selection. Do I have to change something in Windows or Ubuntu? I have checked in XP, it doesnt shows up the Linux in its operating system selection. I dont know where to check in Linux.
I think you have to edit the GRUB configuration file in Ubuntu, but I am not 100% sure how to do this. AT will know how, I am sure Your question is really to do with linux, so I'll move your thread accordingly
it depends on which boot manager you want to use XP's or (as mega said GRUB) or you could use some third party boot man
I was confused in the begining too but then thought that it relates to both so I can start it anywhere. In regards to my problem, After installing ubuntu I found that its not like windows operating system. I cant see the particular amount of drive I assigned to it. Niether linux from XP not XP from linux. There is something which is coming in my mind that when I installed linux, I changed a flag(something) to the D drive to make it primary bootable drive. Is it a solution? Can I change it to other drive and that primary boot drive? I dont know what the :swear:GRUB is?????
GRUB is one of the boot loaders used in *nix operating systems. It's configuration file can be found in Code: /boot/grub/menu.1st If you want to manage your partitions in ubuntu and see how much available disk space you have, install GParted: Code: sudo apt-get install gparted The run it with Code: gparted Or choose if from the GNOME Administration menu
i think your talking about "setting the Active partition" you know you can only have 3 primary partitions (bootable, hidden or not) and 1 extended partition (containig many logical partitions, you can also convert an Active partition into a logical partition and vice versa) or 4 primary partitions the text file i've attatched explains it well, BTW PartitionExpert has been replaced by Disk Director 10 i recommend Disk Director, not only can you download it but you can also burn a bootable CD to reconfigure your partitions
Wow! it costs $50 US......... How much space does it required? I have couple of GB left. Do I need to type commands or something to run this program. If yes then please let me know that as well. Thanks The other day I upgraded my Ubuntu and now when I turn on my computer..I get 4 options to enter into Ubuntu. 2 for the old versions and 2 for the new one. Any Idea what can I do?
whichever O/S you installed last, you will be using that O/S's boot manager, if you where to reinstall XP on top of itself then edit boot.ini in c:, or you could go into recovery console and type "bootcfg /rebuild" then dont enter any (i think) options but enter a partition identifier (to be displayed on boot screen) then reboot
This is getting complicated! Does unbuntu use grub? If it does type..... Code: grub in the command line in linux It should look something like.... grub> Then type the position on your hard drive where linux is. Note grub is different in that hda2 is known as hd0,1 in grub. hdb4 is hd1,3 in grub Type the position like this (for hda1) Code: root (hd0,0) Then tell grub where the mbr is... ie if its on the primary drive, hda type: Code: setup (hd0) then Code: quit This will then use the grub bootloader upon boot. I personally think its best because you can change things in it quite easily. then in /boot/grub/menu.lst add an option for windows. Code: title Windows rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 should do it with (hd0,0) being where your windows installation is. Put the part for windows above the part for ubuntu in menu.lst You can create a grub boot disk using... Code: dd if=/boot/grub/stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1 dd if=/boot/grub/stage2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1 If you do use this grub boot disk its the same as above only you are better off typing "reboot" instead on "quit" Ive not tried typing quit but I doubt it will work. What I have done in the past is not type either and the linux partition was completely knackered. If it all goes belly you can always use fdisk /mbr in dos. This will at least get you into windows. Or if you have a hard drive tools disk which you often get with new hard drives yuo can usually back your mbr. Post your menu.lst if your not sure. The last thing you want is a drive you cant boot into either OSs with! Here is an example of my menu.lst Code: # Begin /boot/grub/menu.lst # By default boot the first menu entry. default 0 # Allow 30 seconds before booting the default. timeout 30 # Use prettier colors. color green/black light-green/black # The first entry is for LFS. title Augustus root (hd0,2) kernel /boot/lfskernel-2.6.11.12 root=/dev/hda3 title Windows rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1
