mpcrsc Posted July 8, 2007 Report Share Posted July 8, 2007 here's the scoop... i have an old computer that i installed mandriva to as the main os. i wanted to get my feet wet. so, on my newer desktop i have an expendable 100gb usb harddrive. i want to install mandriva on my usb drive but set up my pc so that windows always boots first by default. what do i need to do to make this happen? i post this because earlier this year, i tried to do the very same thing, except with opensuse. everything installed AOK, but it was just that i didn't want to have to always select to have windows to boot. this pc is always going to be a windows machine because of the software i have and given a choice, i want to choose to boot linux. anyway, because i didn't like the fact that linux booted first by default, i tried to uninstall opensuse from my usb drive and messed everything up. i had to do a windows reinstall and haven't messed with anything linux flavored since this past friday, when i installed mandriva to the relic pc. the relic pc runs mandriva fine, but it is in my garage (quite uncomfortable). any help would be much appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pindakoe Posted July 8, 2007 Report Share Posted July 8, 2007 You can define which partition is the default for booting in the bootloaderconfiguraion (lilo.conf for lilo; menu.lst for grub). The mandriva control center has options to set this up for you (forgot the text as not on my PC at present). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpcrsc Posted July 8, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 8, 2007 You can define which partition is the default for booting in the bootloaderconfiguraion (lilo.conf for lilo; menu.lst for grub). The mandriva control center has options to set this up for you (forgot the text as not on my PC at present). ok. thanks. i'm going to try the install today. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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