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fellowsh
December 10th, 2008, 02:43 PM
Dear all, I have a multiple boot machine. It used to have a dual boot with XP 64 and XP 32. The OSs are in 2 separate hard disks.

I now installed UBUNTU 8.10 in a partition of the same disk which contains XP32.

Now, when I turn on the PC I have a screen very similar to this:
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/images/installinghardyplus23.png

How can I change the settings so that Ubuntu is not the default but windows instead?
Thx
r

iponeverything
December 10th, 2008, 02:46 PM
sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst

uncomment and set "default num" near the top of the file.

davidbilla
December 10th, 2008, 02:47 PM
Open menu.lst

$ sudo vi /boot/grub/menu.lst

In that file search for the line 'default 0'

Change it to 'default 3'.

fellowsh
December 13th, 2008, 04:58 AM
Open menu.lst

$ sudo vi /boot/grub/menu.lst

In that file search for the line 'default 0'

Change it to 'default 3'.
Thank you m8

fellowsh
December 13th, 2008, 04:58 AM
sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst

uncomment and set "default num" near the top of the file.
Thank u m8

Partyboi2
December 13th, 2008, 06:23 AM
You can follow this (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GrubHowto/ChangeDefaultOS) guide through. If you get stuck or still not sure how to make the changes open a terminal (Applications>Accessories>Terminal) and post the output to

cat /boot/grub/menu.lst and someone should be able to help.