Sunwatcher Posted March 24, 2010 Report Share Posted March 24, 2010 I have a new install of 2010 on a machine that also runs Vista. I need Vista to be the default boot OS. During the (graphical) install of Mandriva, I moved the Vista entry up to the first line in the Grub menu. When grub starts, it does give me Vista as the first entry, but it also defaults to Mandriva as the highlighted entry which boots after the countdown. How do I get grub to default to Vista? Many thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted March 25, 2010 Report Share Posted March 25, 2010 You don't need to move the ordering in grub, but what you do need to do is look at the line that says: default 0 0 = first grub entry 1 = second grub entry 2 = third grub entry and so on. So, if you set it to the Vista option, then it can only be booting Vista. There's no other way it can boot Mandriva if the default is Vista. If Mandriva is still the default, then you have something wrong in your grub config. You can always post the grub config here from /boot/grub/menu.lst and we can take a look and help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kieth Posted March 25, 2010 Report Share Posted March 25, 2010 In MCC, it doesn't matter if the entry is towards the top or bottom. In MCC, just highlight Vista, then click on the modify button. There you can set it as default. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunwatcher Posted March 26, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 Thanks Ian and Kieth. I was able to change the default in MCC, and it works great now. Problem solved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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