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You need to edit your bootloader-settings.
It's eighter in /boot/grub/menu.lst
or /boot/grub/grub.conf I think.
Here you can change boot options:
Look at chapter 5 for details.
Unless Mandriva (you meen Mandriva right, not the old Mandrake?)
has a graphical Boot-editor, check in the KDE-menu.
It's eighter in /boot/grub/menu.lst
or /boot/grub/grub.conf I think.
Here you can change boot options:
Look at chapter 5 for details.
Unless Mandriva (you meen Mandriva right, not the old Mandrake?)
has a graphical Boot-editor, check in the KDE-menu.
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Mandrake (mandriva) typically uses lilo instead of grub
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Oops my mistake for not knowing that Mandriva still
uses the old LILO.
So what you need to do is:
1. Become root with su
2. Locate the lilo.conf file.
3. Edit it to your liking.
4. Run the command lilo to update with new settings.
If the locate command doesn't work, you can
update it's search index by running updatedb as root.
Now locate (and slocate) should work.
HTH
uses the old LILO.
So what you need to do is:
1. Become root with su
2. Locate the lilo.conf file.
3. Edit it to your liking.
4. Run the command lilo to update with new settings.
If the locate command doesn't work, you can
update it's search index by running updatedb as root.
Now locate (and slocate) should work.
HTH
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Thanks, geirendre
I noticed that I had edited that file and set the default to windows but it had not taken effect. It was the, Run the command lilo to update with new settings. that's what I was looking for. Thanks for the locate command couldn't remember it. Suppose thats what happens when you don't work with linux for a year. Although I run basic commands here at work but they all documented, nothing to remember, and the rest is done through webmin.
By the way if I stumble across this with grub, is there a command that needs to be run to update it?
One last thing at work to edit files pico is installed I used vi to edit the lilo file, how would I install pico?
I noticed that I had edited that file and set the default to windows but it had not taken effect. It was the, Run the command lilo to update with new settings. that's what I was looking for. Thanks for the locate command couldn't remember it. Suppose thats what happens when you don't work with linux for a year. Although I run basic commands here at work but they all documented, nothing to remember, and the rest is done through webmin.
By the way if I stumble across this with grub, is there a command that needs to be run to update it?
One last thing at work to edit files pico is installed I used vi to edit the lilo file, how would I install pico?
With grub you don't have to run anything to activate changes.
When grub starts, it reads the conf-file so any changes made
to it, takes effect on the first reboot.
Here's the grub manual:
With regards to pico, I'm sure you can find it in Mandriva's
package system.
Do a search for Pico (or Pine) in urpmi.
HTH
When grub starts, it reads the conf-file so any changes made
to it, takes effect on the first reboot.
Here's the grub manual:
With regards to pico, I'm sure you can find it in Mandriva's
package system.
Do a search for Pico (or Pine) in urpmi.
HTH
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