Dual boot with Mandrake 7.2 and Win2000 / WinME

[saw15]

Good day ..

Installed Mandrake 7.2 on my Win2000 prof machine (at work) and my Win ME machine (at home). Now, when I boot up, I have the option of choosing Linux (default) or Windows on both machines.

I would like to set Windows as the default for both machines.

Does anyone know where this option is for both environments?

Thanks in advance.

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

With lilo there are two ways to set the default to M$. (i) Place the windows 'other' block above the linux 'image' block(s) in /etc/lilo.conf (Its probably at the bottom now). (ii) Insert a global line at the top of /etc/lilo.conf that points at the default. For example (example bits of /etc/lilo.conf) :

...
timeout = 600
default=Win2000 <-- same as the 'label=' value you want to use...
other = /dev/hda1
label = Win2000
image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.16
root = /dev/hda8
label = Linux
read-only

When you have changed the lilo.conf file you have to update the binary boot record based on that config by doing (as root) '/sbin/lilo -v' .

Regards