How to configure GRUB to boot WinXP automatically 1

[Dryvlyne]

I have two internal IDE hard drives in my PC. The first HD has WinXP installed on it and the second HD has Fedora Core 3. I have GRUB installed on the MBR of the primary HD, but it always automatically boots to Fedora unless I hit a key real quick and choose WinXP. I would simply like to know what I need to do (in fairly good detail cause I am still a Linux newbie) so that GRUB attempts to boot my WinXP installation by default.

Thanks in advance

 

[xmb]

edit /boot/grub/menu.lst

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[Dryvlyne]

Can someone please be more specific than the previous poster. I am posting my current /boot/grub/menu.lst file so if someone could tell me very specifically what I need to modify so that GRUB will boot WinXP by default I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd1,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hdb2
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda

default=0
timeout=15
splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu

title Fedora Core (2.6.10-1.760_FC3)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.760_FC3 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.10-1.760_FC3.img

title WindowsXP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

 

[smah]

default=1

 

[Dryvlyne]

Thanks for the reply, but simply changing default=0 to default=1 does not do anything, it still automatically to Linux (Fedora Core 3).

Anyone else want to take a stab at it?

 

[smah]

I didn't read closely enough....make that change in grub.conf

 

[Dryvlyne]

Thanks smah that did the job. What's the difference between the menu.lst and grub.conf files? They look to me like they contain the same information.

 

[smah]

menu.lst appears to be a default configuration file. I just did a little googling and it appears that some distros use it. I checked my Red Hat ES server & it also has that file, but I know it isn't used because it's still as it was when the server was first built. I've always used grub.conf for any modifications & never really noticed menu.lst. Notice the first line of menu.lst.