Auto load Windows XP

**Astronaut** · October 9th, 2005

Hello there, I'm new to this forum, newbie but very entusiast about the wonders of linux. I installed my Ubuntu 5.04 successfully along with Windows XP. I also loaded successfully Windows XP into Grub so I have no problems using any of the Operating systems in my pc. My problem is that I don't know how to set Windows boot by default, since I'm not the only user in the house and the rest of my family uses Windows. Thanks a lot...

**Zelut** · October 9th, 2005

This would simply be a matter of editing the grub config file. I don't have my linux box with me so I can't remember the path/filename offhand but you can change the default OS in that file. (I'm assuming since you mentioned you editing to include XP that you can find it again... sorry I can't remember the filename)

**Astronaut** · October 9th, 2005

Originally Posted by kuyaedz

This would simply be a matter of editing the grub config file. I don't have my linux box with me so I can't remember the path/filename offhand but you can change the default OS in that file. (I'm assuming since you mentioned you editing to include XP that you can find it again... sorry I can't remember the filename)

Thanks for answering, are you refering to grub.conf?

**Zelut** · October 9th, 2005

yeah, thats the one

**aysiu** · October 9th, 2005

Code:

sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst

default 0 means "make the first entry the default one."
default 1 means "make the second entry the default one."

And so on. Find out which entry Windows XP is (fourth, fifth, whatever), minus one and make that the default.