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Re: [LUG] Helping newbies

 

On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:38:07 +0000
Eion MacDonald wrote:

> GRUB - Dual Boot
> 
> If dual boot with GRUB, on MBR, then on upgrade of kernel and reboot, 
> GRUB menu.1st resets default to the linux system kernel being
> upgraded. (at least so in SuSe, Ubuntu, PCLinuxOS, Mandriva )
> To restore GRUB default to Windows, so other users can use MSWindows,
> it is necessary to edit GRUB. SuSE allows this in 'boot selection'
> but Ubuntu, Mandriva etc need the actual text of Menu.1st edited and 
> re-saved with Windows in correct default place or numbered as default.

Really?  Sounds like you need to install "Startup Manager" under
Ubuntu... it is part of Ubuntu Universe.  Mandriva (back when it
was Mandrake) used to have a bootloader editor under the Drak tools - I
think it was called drakboot.

Grant.

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