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amilojohnson
June 6th, 2009, 11:09 AM
Hi all, Is it possible to change the default boot from Ubuntu to XP when starting up?

Doug...
demon_hunter
June 6th, 2009, 11:13 AM
depends what pc you have
amilojohnson
June 6th, 2009, 11:15 AM
The computer is a bogg standard laptop running windows XP.

Doug
Idefix82
June 6th, 2009, 11:18 AM
Can you post the output from

cat /boot/grub/menu.lst
gn2
June 6th, 2009, 11:35 AM
Hi all, Is it possible to change the default boot from Ubuntu to XP when starting up?

Doug...

Yes, it's a simple matter of editing your menu.lst file so that Xp is top in the list.

Here's how (http://members.iinet.net.au/~herman546/p15.html#menu.lst), scroll down to "Changing the default (operating system booted by the timer)"
dougcumiskey123
June 6th, 2009, 07:18 PM
Can you post the output from

cat /boot/grub/menu.lst

I entered the line above using the terminal and only got the error "file not found"???

Doug...
dougcumiskey123
June 6th, 2009, 07:19 PM
Yes, it's a simple matter of editing your menu.lst file so that Xp is top in the list.

Here's how (http://members.iinet.net.au/~herman546/p15.html#menu.lst), scroll down to "Changing the default (operating system booted by the timer)"

How do i do that?

Doug...
dougcumiskey123
June 6th, 2009, 07:24 PM
Yes, it's a simple matter of editing your menu.lst file so that Xp is top in the list.

Here's how (http://members.iinet.net.au/~herman546/p15.html#menu.lst), scroll down to "Changing the default (operating system booted by the timer)"

I just spotted the hypertext and had a look, sorry thats far too complicated for a beginner.

Doug...
presence1960
June 6th, 2009, 08:08 PM
install startupmanager. it is a GUI for boot functions and more. Open a terminal and run
sudo apt-get install startupmanager or use Synaptic to install startupmanager. Once installed you can open it by System > Administration > Startup-Manager or open a terminal and run
gksu startupmanager.
-kg-
June 6th, 2009, 08:30 PM
If Presence hadn't beat me to it, that's exactly what I was going to suggest. Startupmanager will configure quite a few things in GRUB and works quite nicely.

You can even configure GRUB to automatically start with the last OS booted.
Idefix82
June 6th, 2009, 08:58 PM
I entered the line above using the terminal and only got the error "file not found"???

Doug...

Please copy and paste the line. The first letter of the extension of the file is a lower case L, not a 1.