Edit Grub

[manzar1971 0]

I am new to LINUX, I have installed linux RedHat 9 with windowsME, now want to edit GRUB, and change the booting sequence to 1st to DOS and 2nd to LINUX.

Thankyou

[danleff 0]

If you are brand new to Linux, I would leave it alone for now, until you get comfortable with using the editors and command line stuff. But, if you must, you can edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst file and change the default option from 0 to 1.

 

So, you probably see something like;

 

default=0

timeout=30

splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz

title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-0.12)

root (hd0,0)

kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-0.12 ro root=/dev/hda3

initrd /initrd-2.4.18-0.12.img

 

 

Change the default= option to 1. The numbers start with 0 (or should), which means boot the first title entry.

 

You should have another entry, the second, assuming that you are just booting Windows and RedHat, like;

 

title DOS....this is the second entry.

 

Save the file and exit your editor.

 

[CrazyKillerMan 0]

From Gentoo handbook: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=10

 

This is a really nice intro to grub.

 

If you want to edit your grub file, make sure to check out /etc/fstab and make sure that when your boot partition is loaded that it does not have "noauto" as an option or you will not be able to view that partition.